How the Elite Maintain Power?, Random Stuff, and More

- in this post I'd like to examine how the elite maintain power (as individuals and/or groups). It's effectively a continuation of some of my other research into general conspiracies and whether or not they may be real:
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
How big a problem is white supremacy in US police forces _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMSzO2YeWy4
Is governance across Africa in crisis _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6rZ7fLVwNQ
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=larken+rose+the+dot
TheTinyDot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs
"larken rose" "the dot"
http://voluntaryist.com/articles/we-are-many-they-are-few/
http://exrat.com/self-education/critical-thinking/the-tiny-dot-video-by-larken-rose/
https://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-055-the-tiny-dot-with-larken-rose/
What billionaire philanthropists and technocrats are acquiring land at an accelerating speed, they appear to be telling the general public that in the future private property will virtually cease to exist.
In his books, World Economic Forum founder and globalist Klaus Schwab makes clear that the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' or 'The Great Reset' will lead to the abolition of private property.
That message is echoed on the WEF's official website, which states, "Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, "our city". I don't own anything. I don't own a car. I don't own a house. I don't own any appliances or any clothes."
Apparently, you won't be allowed to own any private property and your only recourse will be to live in a state of permanent dependency on a small number of rich elitists who own everything.
That used to be called feudalism, which is a form of slavery.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bill-gates-becomes-americas-largest-farmland-owner-while-great-reset-says-future-no
"For 60 years nothing has really been solved in this country," Seun Kuti says. "Healthcare, education, electricity, transportation, welfare – nothing has been accomplished."
Galvanised by the brutality meted out by Nigerian police against protesters in October last year, the 37-year-old Grammy-nominated musician and youngest son of the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti resurrected his father's socialist political party, the Movement of the People. Against a backdrop of widespread and mounting frustration over how Nigeria is run, he hopes the MOP can be a vehicle for change in 2021.
The "weird" past year was, he says, compounded by peculiarly Nigerian challenges. In October Kuti marched alongside thousands of others in the #EndSars protests against police brutality, nursing the wounds of shot demonstrators. The protests, some of the largest in Nigeria for decades, erupted after footage emerged of police brutality by the notorious Sars unit. But the underlying causes were broader, Kuti says. "The people made it known that EndSars was a slogan. How I interpreted it was they wanted an end to oppression, not just a manifestation of it that is Sars."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/19/system-rigged-seun-kuti-reviving-fela-political-party-nigeria
Giants - Who Really Rules The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUGh1Su7-ok
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSONye1F5M
https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Global-Power-Peter-Phillips/dp/1609808711
https://www.booktopia.com.au/giants-peter-phillips/book/9781609808716.html
https://www.projectcensored.org/product/giants-the-global-power-elite/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=giants+global+power+elite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_300
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion
The Global Power Elite - A Transnational Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsdJhSI63uQ
https://archive.org/details/committee300
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-V85INOCl0G4CrnMp
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=commitee+of+300
https://davidicke.com/
https://corbettreport.com
"There is greater suspicion about billionaires and about wealth and accumulation of wealth, because people are asking for the first time, excuse me, how did you become a billionaire exactly, because I just lost my house?" Lewis says.
"That's an interesting transitional point [but] having said that, I think there will always remain a certain rock and roll element to the guy with the money and the fast car and I think that is more prevalent here [in the United States]."
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/show-me-the-money-tv-series-industry-cashes-in-on-finance-drama-boom-20210108-p56smg.html
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/nov/27/industry-is-the-bbcs-banking-drama-this-life-for-a-new-generation
Industry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pb89
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pb85
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+industry&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D
- the military industrial complex and secret security/services have obviously been used to control the public for a long time. Pretty much all countries have been or are in some way involved in this. French Revolution, Tsarist Russia, Black Lives Matter movement, Cold War, etc... all examples
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/the-american-civil-rights-movement/content-section-0
Keiser Report _ The Long History of Karen _ E1563
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NCiVYe2Bg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
https://www.amazon.com/DGSE-French-Machine-Dominique-Poirier/dp/1687670536
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_External_Security
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/guerrilla
God to Peasant "worship me and I'll protect you."
Peasant "protect me from what."
God "the unspeakable things I will do to you, if you don't."
https://theaimn.com/scomoreligiousbacktrack/
On Contact - British government psyops with Mohamed Elmaazi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_K-j6a9ETI
Interviews From Washington DC - Matthew Hoh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjm9lVt5nPc
The truth about war with Danny Sjursen, combat veteran and West Point graduate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsYmD8kpGVc
On Contact - Police Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfmtvS7_gQ
~297~ Don't Defend the Statues or Fake Police Reforms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Jf7bEOAwg
~295~ 16 Mind-Blowing Facts About the Police!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vweMc91ra-k
Butina complained that in the U.S., she was forced to sign a plea-deal[18] or risk decades in prison, a practice which is well-known in the United States, where 95 per cent of Federal defendants plead guilty[19]. She complained of being held in solitary as a means of coercion to sign the deal. On return to Russia, she was hired by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, to advocate for victims of justice failures.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)
When it was established in 1949 (after the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War), the MPS, with PLA General Luo Ruiqing as its first Minister, was, based on Soviet and Eastern Bloc models, responsible for all aspects of security, ranging from regular police work to intelligence, counter-intelligence and suppression of anti-communist political and social groups.[1] Military intelligence remained with the PLA General Staff, while the International Liaison Department of the Communist Party of China was active in fomenting revolution internationally by funneling weapons, money and resources to various pro-Chinese groups worldwide.[2]
However, since the creation, in 1983, of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), which took over responsibility for many national security issues such as domestic and foreign intelligence-gathering and fighting espionage and subversion, the MPS has focused its efforts on regular law enforcement. Hong Kong and Macau have their own security bureaus or agencies and police forces. As of November 2017, the Minister of Public Security is Zhao Kezhi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Public_Security_(China)
Mossad (/məˈsæd/; Hebrew: הַמוֹסָד, IPA: [ha moˈsad]; Arabic: الموساد, al-Mōsād, IPA: [almoːˈsaːd]; lit. The Institute), short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"), is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin Bet (internal security).
Mossad is responsible for intelligence collection, covert operations, and counterterrorism. Mossad is separate from Israel's democratic institutions. Because no law defines its purpose, objectives, roles, missions, powers or budget and because it is exempt from the constitutional laws of the State of Israel Mossad has been described as a deep state.[1] Its director answers directly and only to the Prime Minister. Its annual budget is estimated to be around 10 billion shekels (US$2.73 billion) and it is estimated that it employs around 7,000 people directly, making it the second-largest espionage agency in the Western world, after the American CIA.[2]
Organization
Executive offices
The largest department of Mossad is Collections, tasked with many aspects of conducting espionage overseas. Employees in the Collections Department operate under a variety of covers, including diplomatic and unofficial.[3] The Political Action and Liaison Department is responsible for working with allied foreign intelligence services, and nations that have no normal diplomatic relations with Israel.[3] Additionally, Mossad has a Research Department, tasked with intelligence production, and a Technology Department concerned with the development of tools for Mossad activities.[4]
History
Mossad was formed on December 13, 1949, as the Central Institute for Coordination at the recommendation of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to Reuven Shiloah. Ben Gurion wanted a central body to coordinate and improve cooperation between the existing security services—the army's intelligence department (AMAN), the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet), and the foreign office's "political department". In March 1951, it was reorganized and made a part of the prime minister's office, reporting directly to the prime minister.
Motto
Mossad's former motto, be-tachbūlōt ta`aseh lekhā milchāmāh (Hebrew: בתחבולות תעשה לך מלחמה) is a quote from the Bible (Proverbs 24:6): "For by wise guidance you can wage your war" (NRSV). The motto was later changed to another Proverbs passage: be-'éyn tachbūlōt yippol `ām; ū-teshū`āh be-rov yō'éts (Hebrew: באין תחבולות יפול עם, ותשועה ברוב יועץ, Proverbs 11:14). This is translated by NRSV as: "Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety."
Counter-terrorist units
Metsada
Metsada is a unit responsible for attacking the enemy. Metsada runs "small units of combatants" whose missions include "assassinations and sabotage".[5]
Kidon
The Kidon is a unit which belongs to the Caesarea department (one of Mossad's eight departments). It is described by Yaakov Katz as "an elite group of expert assassins who operate under the Caesarea branch of the espionage organization. Not much is known about this mysterious unit, details of which are some of the most closely guarded secrets in the Israeli intelligence community." It recruits from "former soldiers from the elite IDF special force units."[6] This unit has been a part of Israel's policy of assassinations, which according to Ronen Bergman is a policy that Israel has used more than any other country in the West since World War II, stating it has carried out at least 2,700 assassination missions.[7][8][9]
Venture capital
Mossad has opened a venture capital fund, in order to invest in hi-tech startups to develop new cyber technologies.[10] The names of technology startups funded by Mossad will not be published.[10]
Operation Harpoon
Together with Shurat HaDin, they started Operation Harpoon, for "destroying terrorists' money networks."[11][12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad
Secret police (or political police)[1] are intelligence, security or police agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.[2] Used to protect the political power of an individual dictator or an authoritarian regime, secret police often operate outside the law and are used to repress dissidents and weaken the political opposition, frequently with violence.[3]
History
In East Asia, the jinyiwei (Embroidered Uniform Guard) of the Ming Dynasty was founded in the 1360s by the Hongwu Emperor and served as the dynasty's secret police until the collapse of Ming rule in 1644. Originally, their main functions were to serve as the emperor's bodyguard and to spy on his subjects and report any plots of rebellion or regicide directly to the emperor. Over time, the organization took on law enforcement and judicial functions and grew to be immensely powerful, with the power to overrule ordinary judicial rulings and to investigate, interrogate, and punish anyone, including members of the imperial family. In 1420, a second secret police organization run by eunuchs, known as the dongchang (Eastern Depot), was formed to suppress suspected political opposition to the usurpation of the throne by the Yongle Emperor. Combined, these two organizations made the Ming Dynasty one of the world's first police states.[4]
In Europe, secret police organizations originated in 18th-century Europe after the French Revolution. Such operations were established in an effort to detect any possible conspiracies or revolutionary subversion. The peak of secret-police operations in most of Europe was 1815 to 1860, "when restrictions on voting, assembly, association, unions and the press were so severe in most European countries that opposition groups were forced into conspiratorial activities."[5] The secret police of the Austrian Empire were particularly notorious during this period.[5] After 1860, the use of secret police declined due to increasing liberalization, except in autocratic regimes such as the Russian Empire.[5]
In the Russian Empire, the secret police forces were the Third Section of the Imperial Chancery and then the Okhrana. After the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union established the OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MVD, and KGB.[6]
In Nazi Germany, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police, Gestapo) (1933–1945) was used to eliminate opposition; as part of the Reich Main Security Office, it also was a vital organizer of the Holocaust. Although the Gestapo had a relatively small number membership (32,000 in 1944), "it maximized these small resources through informants and a large number of denunciations from the local population."[7] After the defeat of the Nazis, the East German secret police, the Stasi, likewise made use of an extensive network of civilian informers.[8]
Functions and methods
Ilan Berman and J. Michael Waller describe the secret police as central to totalitarian regimes and "an indispensable device for the consolidation of power, neutralization of the opposition, and construction of a single-party state."[1] In addition to these activities, secret police may also be responsible for tasks not related to suppressing internal dissent, such as gathering foreign intelligence, engaging in counterintelligence, organizing border security, and guarding government buildings and officials.[1] Secret police forces sometimes endure even after the fall of a totalitarian regime.[1]
Arbitrary detention, abduction and forced disappearance, torture, and assassination are all tools wielded by secret police "to prevent, investigate, or punish (real or imagined) opposition."[9] Because secret police typically act with great discretionary powers "to decide what is a crime" and are a tool used to target political opponents, they operate outside the rule of law.[10]
People apprehended by the secret police are often arbitrarily arrested and detained without due process. While in detention, arrestees may be tortured or subjected to inhumane treatment. Suspects may not receive a public trial, and instead may be convicted in a kangaroo court-style show trial, or by a secret tribunal. Secret police known to have used these approaches in history, included the secret police of East Germany (the Ministry for State Security or Stasi) and Portuguese PIDE.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary socialist political organization founded by Marxist college students Bobby Seale (Chairman) and Huey Newton (Minister of Defense) in October 1966 in Oakland, California.[7][8] The party was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, with chapters in numerous major cities, and international chapters in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s,[9] and in Algeria from 1969 to 1972.[10] At its inception on October 15, 1966,[11] the Black Panther Party's core practice was its open carry armed citizens' patrols ("copwatching") to monitor the behavior of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city.
In 1969, a variety of community social programs became a core activity.[12] The Party instituted the Free Breakfast for Children Programs to address food injustice, and community health clinics for education and treatment of diseases including sickle cell anemia, tuberculosis, and later HIV/AIDS.[13][14][15]
Black Panther Party members were involved in many fatal firefights with police. Newton declared:
Malcolm, implacable to the ultimate degree, held out to the Black masses . . . liberation from the chains of the oppressor and the treacherous embrace of the endorsed [Black] spokesmen. Only with the gun were the black masses denied this victory. But they learned from Malcolm that with the gun, they can recapture their dreams and bring them into reality.[16]
Huey Newton allegedly killed officer John Frey in 1967, and Eldridge Cleaver (Minister of Information) led an ambush in 1968 of Oakland police officers, in which two officers were wounded and Panther Bobby Hutton (Treasurer) was killed. FBI infiltrators caused the party to suffer many internal conflicts, resulting in the murders of Alex Rackley and Betty Van Patter.
In 1967, the Mulford Act was passed by the California legislature and governor Ronald Reagan, establishing strict gun laws that stripped legal ownership of firearms from Black Panther members and prevented all citizens, black and white, from carrying firearms in public.
In 1969, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."[17][18][19] He developed and supervised an extensive counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, and many other tactics, designed to undermine Panther leadership, incriminate and assassinate party members, discredit and criminalize the Party, and drain organizational resources and manpower. The program was responsible for the assassination of Fred Hampton,[20] and is accused of assassinating other Black Panther members, including Mark Clark.[21][22][23][24]
Government persecution initially contributed to the party's growth, as killings and arrests of Panthers increased its support among African Americans and the broad political left, who both valued the Panthers as a powerful force opposed to de facto segregation and the military draft. The party enrolled the most members and had the most influence in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Philadelphia.[25] There were active chapters in many prisons, at a time when an increasing number of young African-American men were being incarcerated.
Black Panther Party membership reached a peak in 1970, with offices in 68 cities and thousands of members, but it began to decline over the following decade. After its leaders and members were vilified by the mainstream press, public support for the party waned, and the group became more isolated.[26] In-fighting among Party leadership, fomented largely by the FBI's COINTELPRO operation, led to expulsions and defections that decimated the membership.[27] Popular support for the Party declined further after reports of the group's alleged criminal activities, such as drug dealing and extortion of Oakland merchants.[28] By 1972 most Panther activity centered on the national headquarters and a school in Oakland, where the party continued to influence local politics. Though under constant police surveillance, the Chicago chapter also remained active and maintained their community programs until 1974.[25] The Seattle chapter persisted longer than most, with a breakfast program and medical clinics that continued even after the chapter disbanded in 1977.[25] The Party continued to dwindle throughout the 1970s, and by 1980 had just 27 members.[29]
The Party's history is controversial. Scholars have characterized the Black Panther Party as the most influential black movement organization of the late 1960s, and "the strongest link between the domestic Black Liberation Struggle and global opponents of American imperialism".[30] Other commentators have described the Party as more criminal than political, characterized by "defiant posturing over substance".[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
[208] US "Humanitarian Intervention" Is A Lie (with Dan Kovalik)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clyMwe-uaQ
Seneca Village was a 19th-century settlement of mostly African American landowners in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, within what would become present-day Central Park. The settlement was located on about 5 acres (2.0 ha) near the Upper West Side neighborhood, approximately bounded by 82nd and 89th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues, had they been constructed.
Seneca Village was founded in 1825 by free blacks, the first such community in the city. At its peak, the community had 264 residents, three churches, a school, and two cemeteries. The settlement was later inhabited by Irish and German immigrants. Seneca Village existed until 1857, when, through eminent domain, the villagers and other settlers in the area were ordered to leave and their houses were torn down for the construction of Central Park. The entirety of the village was dispersed except for one congregation that relocated.
Several vestiges of Seneca Village's existence have been found over the years, including two graves and a burial plot. The settlement was largely forgotten until the publication of Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar's book The Park and the People: A History of Central Park in 1992. The Seneca Village Project was formed in 1998 to raise awareness of the village, and several archeological digs have been conducted. In 2001, a historical plaque was unveiled, commemorating the site where Seneca Village once stood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Village

- it's difficult to know what the intentions of the elite are a lot of the time due to their policies, nature, etc... One thing thats obvious is that they've learnt to use fences, fronts, etc... (much like regular criminals) so that they don't have to face judgement via their peers. Secret societies were precursors to intelligence services such as GCHQ, CIA, Mossad, etc... Skull and Bones/Yale gave rise to CIA. Freemansonary is Kaballism (from Jewish culture)? Lots of Freemasonary symbols in corporate logos including Exxon, McDonalds, etc... Secret societies use access to information to screen people? It reminds me of the nature of the covert security/intelligence services nowadays in the way that they hide their true intentions?

What's In A Logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTp-rm5Ojk

Heading Back To Lockdown - Puppets Read Their Script - David Icke Dot-Connector Videocast

https://www.bitchute.com/video/HV9a2Vu4FNPY/

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html

finals clubs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College_social_clubs

https://www.quora.com/What-are-final-clubs

https://nypost.com/2017/07/22/harvard-wants-to-ban-elite-social-clubs-to-be-more-inclusive/

skull and bones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare

oldest intelligence agency

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-worlds-first-intelligence-agency

- extensive use of PSYOPS. The media and integration of intelligence services makes more sense over time? They are used to control people PSYOPS, propaganda, via Active Measures, they're also used as a source of revenue (indirectly via advertising and/or state funding. BBC, VOA, RT, Al Jazeera are all state funding and this theme continues) for advertising? Highly concentrated/centralised media helps to extend this reach further
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.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
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors
'RT raises issues corporate controlled media doesn't want raised' - Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jpUx2XJcU
RT - Explaining uncomfortable truths to fellow Americans for 15 years straight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-DmU3Zfts

Its Coming Being Prepared Only 1%_Know About This. David icke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMeXnzoGj0

https://www.corbettreport.com/im-blocked-from-uploading-to-gootube-and-other-news/

Key features of critical criminology
Human action is voluntaristic (to different degrees), rather than determined (or in some formulations, voluntary in determining contexts).
Social order is pluralistic or conflictual, rather than consensual.
Some critical theories draw on Marxist analysis and begin from the premise that capitalist economic policies lead to immiseration, which thereby create conditions in which turning to crime becomes a viable survival strategy.
Criminalisation strategies are class-, race- and gender-control strategies that are consciously used to depoliticise political resistance and to control economically and politically marginalised neighbourhoods and groups.
Moral panics about crime being out of control are used to deflect attention away from inherent structural conflicts.
Orthodox crime control strategies are incapable of tackling the crimes of the powerful and state crimes.
Legal categories that claim to be race/gender neutral are riddled with white, male assumptions of what constitutes normal or reasonable behaviour.
'Mainstream' criminology requires exposure as a criminology of the state.
The criminological agenda should be expanded to include those social harms ignored or underplayed in dominant discourse, such as gendered and racialised violence, poverty, war, crimes of the powerful, environmental crime, state sanctioned violence and crimes against humanity.
Source: adapted from Muncie, J. (2004)
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/introduction-critical-criminology/content-section-4
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/health-sports-psychology/social-care/homelessness-and-need/content-section-0
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/sociology/does-prison-work/content-section-0
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/human-rights-and-law/content-section-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Martin-Bittman
Organization. The original Al Jazeera channel was launched 1 November 1996 by an emiri decree with a loan of 500 million Qatari riyals (US$137 million) from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
The Office of War Information, when organized in the middle of 1942, officially took over VOA's operations. VOA reached an agreement with the British Broadcasting Corporation to share medium-wave transmitters in Britain, and expanded into Tunis in North Africa and Palermo and Bari, Italy as the Allies captured these territories. The OWI also set up the American Broadcasting Station in Europe.[25] Asian transmissions started with one transmitter in California in 1941; services were expanded by adding transmitters in Hawaii and, after recapture, the Philippines.[26]
By the end of the war, VOA had 39 transmitters and provided service in 40 languages.[26] Programming was broadcast from production centers in New York and San Francisco, with more than 1,000 programs originating from New York. Programming consisted of music, news, commentary, and relays of U.S. domestic programming, in addition to specialized VOA programming.[27]
About half of VOA's services, including the Arabic service, were discontinued in 1945.[28] In late 1945, VOA was transferred to the Department of State.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
While the BBC tends to characterise its coverage of the general strike by emphasising the positive impression created by its balanced coverage of the views of government and strikers, Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History and the Official BBC Historian, has characterised the episode as the invention of "modern propaganda in its British form".[28] Reith argued that trust gained by 'authentic impartial news' could then be used. Impartial news was not necessarily an end in itself.[31]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC
RT is a state-controlled international television network funded by the Russian federal tax budget. It operates pay television channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Russian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)
dark arts
The Dark Arts, also known as Dark Magic, refers to any type of magic that is mainly used to cause harm to, exert control over, or even kill the victim. Despite being labelled "dark", the Dark Arts are not necessarily "evil".
https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Arts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/01/active-measures-review-donald-trump-russia-thomas-rida
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45892235-active-measures
https://www.amazon.com/Active-Measures-History-Disinformation-Political/dp/0374287260
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/the-secret-history-of-disinformation-and-political-warfare
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2020-04-14/active-measures-secret-history-disinformation-and-political
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=active+measures
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/true-evil-the-making-of-a-nazi
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1321828931870/true-evil-the-making-of-a-nazi-goebbels
- promote anti-intellectualism while simultaneously supporting nepotism and a non-meritocracy? This means that in spite of a lack of intellectual depth or breadth of many of those at the top get to stay up even if others notice massive flaws in what they are doing, saying, etc?
Vladimir Bukovsky - My Life as a Dissenter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgwdpgjBUok
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reagan+evil+empire+speech+1983
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Empire_speech
Reaganomics (/reɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/; a portmanteau of [Ronald] Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey),[1] or Reaganism, refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with and characterized as supply-side economics, trickle-down economics, or voodoo economics by political opponents, while Reagan and his political advocates preferred to call it free-market economics.
The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation.[2]
The results of Reaganomics are still debated. Supporters point to the end of stagflation, stronger GDP growth, and an entrepreneur revolution in the decades that followed.[3][4] Critics point to the widening income gap, what they described as an atmosphere of greed, and the national debt tripling in eight years which ultimately reversed the post-World War II trend of a shrinking national debt as percentage of GDP.[5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=george+bush+evil+empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Johns_(policy_analyst)
Michael Johns soviet union list crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_repression_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollowmen
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hollowmen
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-17/university-casual-workforce-redundancies-dirty-secret/12462030
- PSYOPS also involves using promoting education system that promotes indoctrination rather then education
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html

Renegade Inc _ Rafe Hubris MA Oxon Tory Party Special Adviser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E-1cPW1VZk

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rafe+hubris

https://www.youtube.com/user/JoshBerryImpressions/videos

https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/510681-rafe-hubris-tory-adviser/

- lawfare. This includes deliberate infiltration or manipulation of the legal system. Re-assigned cases, judges instead of juries, secret witnesses, invocation of national security where it isn't appropriate, threatening witnesses, bribes, application of law in funny ways, bad laws, having lifetime judges who have no accountability, etc... 

Will Anything Under Joe Biden Really Change (Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbk0tsujzs

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
Operation Car Wash (Portuguese: Operação Lava Jato) is an ongoing criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba Branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge[a] Sérgio Moro, and in 2019 by Judge Luiz Antônio Bonat [pt].[14] It has resulted in more than a thousand warrants of various types. According to the Operation Car Wash task force, investigations implicate administrative members of the state-owned oil company Petrobras, politicians from Brazil's largest parties (including presidents of the Republic), presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate, state governors, and businessmen from large Brazilian companies. The Federal Police consider it the largest corruption investigation in the country's history.
Originally a money laundering investigation, it expanded to cover allegations of corruption at Petrobras, where executives allegedly accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices. This criminal scheme was initially known as Petrolão (Portuguese for "big oil") because of the Petrobras scandal.[15] The investigation is called "Operation Car Wash" because it was first uncovered at a car wash in Brasília.
The aim of the investigation is to ascertain the extent of a money laundering scheme, estimated by the Regional Superintendent of the Federal Police of Paraná State in 2015 at R$6.4–42.8 billion (US$2–13 billion), largely through the embezzlement of Petrobras funds.[16][17]:60[11]:16 It has included more than a thousand warrants for search and seizure, temporary and preventive detention, and plea bargaining, against business figures and politicians in numerous parties.
At least eleven other countries were involved, mostly in Latin America, and the Brazilian company Odebrecht was deeply implicated.[18]
Investigators indicted and jailed some well-known politicians, including former presidents Fernando Collor de Mello, Michel Temer and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The scandal seemed to challenge the impunity of politicians and business leaders and the structural corruption in the political and economic system that had prevailed until then. This was initially thought possible because of the independence of the judiciary.[19]
However, documents leaked in June 2019 to Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept suggest that Judge Sérgio Moro may have been partial in his decisions,[20] passing on 'advice, investigative leads, and inside information to the prosecutors'[21] to 'prevent Lula's Workers' Party from winning' the 2018 elections.[22] Several top jurisprudence authorities and experts in the world have reacted to the leaks by describing former President Lula as a political prisoner and calling for his release.[23][24] Lula was ultimately released on 8 November 2019.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash
Ex-Brazilian President Lula Da Silva - The US NEVER Accepted Brazil as an International Player!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPx4l9s5gg
Julian's Trial Begins In Kangaroo Court (Web Exclusive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yHpDIG04kA
'We Have The Knee of America On Our Necks'- Exonerated Central Park Five's Dr. Yusef Salaam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWyyevIgPuI
Chevron vs. Donziger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDpNcJcVqxA
steven donziger
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Kaplan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pharma_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Soda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tobacco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_D._Prescott
https://www.keker.com/Lawyers/Keker-John
The political philosopher Sheldon Wolin coined the term inverted totalitarianism in 2003 to describe what he saw as the emerging form of government of the United States. Wolin analysed the United States as increasingly turning into a managed democracy (similar to an illiberal democracy). He uses the term "inverted totalitarianism" to draw attention to the totalitarian aspects of the American political system while emphasizing its differences from proper totalitarianism, such as Nazi and Stalinist regimes.[1]
The book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012) by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco portrays inverted totalitarianism as a system where corporations have corrupted and subverted democracy and where economics bests politics.[2][3][4][5]
Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
judge jeremy hammond
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cyber-activist-jeremy-hammond-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-109478/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond
https://gizmodo.com/judge-orders-chelsea-manning-and-jeremy-hammond-release-1842301516
list political activists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_activists
But the appeals process is only one part of the justice system Mr Wiseman believes is "broken".
He said he only discovered he was entitled to $10,000 in compensation from Victims Services after being informed by fellow sexual abuse survivors, and that once he applied there were so many delays and "hoops to jump through" it added to the overall stress he experienced.
He said the compensation should be higher.
"I appreciate it and am grateful, but I had my life screwed up and I don't see how $10,000 is going to help fix anything," he said.
"The system needs an overhaul and the compensation levels need to be a lot higher."
And he said he was appalled by Victoria's controversial gag laws – the result of changes to the Judicial Proceedings Reports Act introduced in February – which silence sexual assault victims whose offenders have been found guilty by banning them from ever speaking out under their real identities, including in the media or in autobiographies.
Those who break the new laws face fines of more than $3000 – and up to four months in jail.
As a NSW resident, the harsh laws have not personally impacted Mr Wiseman, but he said he had been contacted by many Victorian survivors who were devastated by the rules, and that he lived in fear similar laws could be rolled out across the nation.
"I absolutely saw red when I read about the gag laws in Victoria – these survivors who have been abused have been sitting in their own mental hell and they can't talk about it, they can't write a book," Mr Wiseman said.
"It's just so wrong in so many ways and I'm frightened a similar law could be introduced in NSW.
"If we lose our voice, that is just so cruel – I don't know where the justice is."
Mr Wiseman said his decision to speak publicly about the rape had not only helped his own healing process but also allowed him to support "hundreds" of other survivors who had contacted him privately over the months.
Last month, the #LetUsSpeak campaign was launched to fight the Victorian laws after helping to overturn similar gag laws in Tasmania and the Northern Territory.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/home-and-away-stars-10-months-of-hell-after-his-rapist-appeals-sentence/news-story/9928e327315da382bb5befa5bfe9ee4f
judicial favouritism statistics
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/child_law/resources/child_law_practiceonline/january---december-2019/influencing-and-challenging-judges-and-their-decisions-in-child-/
https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-judiciary-the-government-and-the-constitution/jud-acc-ind/independence/
https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/who-are-the-judiciary/diversity/judicial-diversity-statistics/judicial-diversity-statistics-2019/
If the plight of Julian Assange tells us anything, it is that we should always be vigilant.
The former Labour MP Chris Williamson, opening proceedings, drew attention to the lack of political opposition to the treatment of Assange. He said that when he tabled an Early Day Motion in parliament in support of the WikiLeaks publisher, it only received five signatures.  
"Politics in our country is broken in reality, certainly parliamentary politics," he said. "Our House of Commons is overrun with establishment lackeys… And what we need in parliament is people who are genuinely going to represent the people that put them there, genuinely going to speak out for what's right, genuinely going to speak truth to power."
Fidel Narvaez was a senior diplomat at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where Assange took refuge for six years. In a lucid and powerful address, he explained how the 'lawfare' deployed to destroy Assange has also been used to criminalize leaders who defied US hegemony in Latin America, such as Rafael Correa, Evo Morales, Lula, and Cristina Kirchner. Trumped-up legal charges (no pun intended) was the way the empire preferred to dispose of its enemies.
"Basically lawfare has two arms, acting together," Narvaez said. "The judicial and the media. First, the mainstream media kills the character and destroys his or her reputation. In the case of Julian, you can see how he was portrayed as a 'rapist,' a 'hacker,' a 'narcissist,' 'Russian asset,' 'spy,' 'bad house guest,' and anything else imaginable."
Once you have discredited someone in such a way, Narvaez explained, then the way is cleared for judicial abuse.
Academic and literature expert Catherine Brown-Mercouris noted how, in the case of other journalistic scoops like the MPs expenses scandal, there was little focus on how these leaks occurred, whereas with Assange the focus is solely on that, and not on the great war crimes that WikiLeaks revealed. We live in a world where it is deemed a greater felony to leak details of war crimes than it is to commit them, which explains why Tony Blair and George Bush, who took us into Iraq in breach of international law, are still free men, whereas Assange is not.
Academic and literature expert Catherine Brown-Mercouris noted how, in the case of other journalistic scoops like the MPs expenses scandal, there was little focus on how these leaks occurred, whereas with Assange the focus is solely on that, and not on the great war crimes that WikiLeaks revealed. We live in a world where it is deemed a greater felony to leak details of war crimes than it is to commit them, which explains why Tony Blair and George Bush, who took us into Iraq in breach of international law, are still free men, whereas Assange is not.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/500676-julian-assange-wikileaks-imperialism/
who appoints judges
How judges are appointed. Supreme Court judges are appointed by the Governor of Victoria. To be eligible for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court, a person must be, or have been: a judge of the High Court of Australia, or of a Court created by the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/about-the-court/our-judiciary
who appoints judges in france
The judges are appointed by the President of the Republic on a recommendation of the Higher Council of the Judiciary. They are divided into six different chambers: First Civil Chamber, Second Civil Chamber, Third Civil Chamber, Labour Chamber, Commercial Chamber, and Criminal Division.
http://www.justice.gouv.fr/publication/french_legal_system.pdf
who appoints judges in united states
Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as stated in the Constitution.
https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges
who appoints judges in japan
The justices are appointed by the Cabinet (the chief justice by the emperor upon designation by the Cabinet). At least two-thirds must have considerable experience as lawyers, prosecutors, law professors, or members of high courts.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Supreme-Court-of-Japan
who appoints judges in nigeria
Judges of the Federal High Court are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and must have been qualified as legal practitioners for at least 10 years. Appointments are on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.
https://lawpadi.com/how-to-be-a-judge-in-nigeria/
who appoints judges in spain
According to Section 123, the President is nominated by the General Council of the Judiciary and appointed by the Monarch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Spain
When the High Court was created in 1903, it comprised three judges. Over the past 120 years, the size of the bench has expanded to seven. Following a referendum in 1977, a mandatory retirement age of 70 was introduced.
However, the Constitution and subsequent legislation are conspicuously silent on the process to be followed in appointing judges. Section 72 of the Constitution says only
The justices of the High Court […] shall be appointed by the governor-general in council.
In practice, this means judges are nominated by the prime minster following advice of the cabinet, with significant weight given to the recommendation of the attorney-general.
The Constitution does not mention qualifications for High Court judges. The High Court of Australia Act 1979 does require appointees to have been either a judge of an Australian court or enrolled as a legal practitioner for at least five years. This minimal threshold provides a very low bar for eligibility.
Similarly, the requirements for vetting judges are scarce. The High Court of Australia Act provides a minimum role for consultation with the states:
Where there is a vacancy in an office of justice, the attorney-general shall, before an appointment is made to the vacant office, consult with the attorneys-general of the states in relation to the appointment.
Such consultations occur in private. There is no requirement for how extensive they must be, nor do they need to factor into the final decision at all. A five-minute session at the end of a National Cabinet video conference would suffice.
In practice, these provisions grant huge discretion to the cabinet to appoint almost any lawyer they wish.
Fortunately, the country has organically developed some strong political conventions to guide the process, including commitments to make appointments based on merit, as well as geographic and (more recently) gender diversity. Unlike in the US, a judge's political leanings are not overtly taken into account.
While a handful of judges have been former politicians, by and large we have been blessed with an apolitical bench populated by the most eminent judges and lawyers in Australia.
However, both the Trump administration in the US and the Johnson government in the UK have shown just how brittle political conventions can be. Once those conventions shatter, the social legitimacy of public institutions — including courts — can quickly evaporate.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-problem-with-the-jury-system-in-australia-20190307-p512iy.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-21/two-high-court-of-australia-judges-will-be-named-soon-e28093/12789198
- deliberately infiltrate law enforcement? Misuse/abuse the law? Detectives boasting of ~95% conviction/confession rates (impossible unless you can pick out suspects near perfectly each time or else corruption is occurring?). Some defendents believe their own false confessions in spite of evidence to contrary?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
How big a problem is white supremacy in US police forces _ The Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMSzO2YeWy4
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1435391555509/false-confessions
false confessions statistics
What is the percentage of false confessions?
According to the Innocence Project, 30 percent of all DNA exonerations involve false confessions. The National Registry of Exonerations estimates that 182 out of 1432 known exonerations (or 13 percent) involved a false confession as a contributing factor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-truth-about-false-con_b_5857094
If you were under interrogation, would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's more common than you might think. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 27 percent of people in the registry who were accused of homicide gave false confessions, and 81 percent of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities did the same when they were accused of homicide.
But why?
Scientists are working to understand more about the psychology of false confessions. In "The confession," an article in the journal Science, journalist Douglas Starr focuses on one of them. Starr features Saul Kassin, a psychologist and interrogation expert who is changing the way law enforcement thinks about interrogation.
Kassin has testified in criminal matters, such as the one concerning Barry Laughman, a 24-year-old with an intellectual disability who was wrongfully convicted of rape and murder in 1988. His research has revealed more about how police interrogation techniques, such as applying increased psychological pressure and bluffing with suggestions of additional incriminating evidence, put people at risk for false confessions.
Starr delves into that research and speaks with detractors who say Kassin's studies don't apply to real-life interrogations. He paints a picture of a confrontational criminal justice system that inadvertently triggers false confessions.
It's a system that's primed for change. "Confessions are being questioned as never before," Starr writes, "not just by defense lawyers, but by lawmakers and some police departments, which are reexamining their approach to interrogation."
His incisive examination of the present and future of interrogation provokes questions about how to move forward, and a reconsideration of the lives that have been irrevocably changed by false testimony.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/examining-why-false-confessions-occur-in-the-us-criminal-justice-system/2019/06/20/10128bb4-9207-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html
Would you confess to a crime you didn't commit?
It's a question to which most people would respond with a confident and resounding "no".
That is because few people are aware of the techniques police in the United States are permitted to use during interrogations; techniques that presume guilt and are designed to break people down into a sense of complete despair before offering them one route out: a confession.
In fact, in the US, more than 25 percent of overturned wrongful convictions involve a false confession.
"Any time you do an exoneration case where there's been a false confession, it's like trying to ride a tricycle uphill," explains defence attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen. "Everybody's already against you, the person's been convicted by a jury, the judge thinks he's guilty, the jury thinks he's guilty. Now you have to convince everybody that they're wrong."
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2019/03/false-confessions-innocent-people-confess-crime-190311093100363.html
law overturn rate
How likely is it to win an appeal?
What are my chances of winning on appeal? Most appeals are not successful. For example, the California courts of appeal will reverse the judgment in civil appeals only about 20 percent of the time. An appellant in a civil case therefore has a one-in-five chance of winning, in general.
http://athenaroussoslaw.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Daily_Recorder_Column_1.344161651.pdf
How often do appeals get overturned?
Each panel shows that about 7 percent of filed cases ending in trials lead to an appellate court reversal, and that the reversal percent is about 6 percent for judge trials and 8 percent for jury trials.
http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1366&context=facpub
What percent of criminal appeals are successful?
4 percent
The national average is that 4 percent of those appeals succeed, compared to 21 percent civil cases that are overturned.
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/04/30/good-question-how-often-do-appeals-work/
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/
https://mashable.com/article/dataminr-twitter-black-lives-matter-protests/
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-says-its-partner-dataminr-wasnt-surveilling-pro-1844328988
https://www.rt.com/usa/494326-dataminr-twitter-protesters-police/
In one of the largest child trafficking rings uncovered in Europe, more than 100 people were convicted in the UK over an operation in which dozens of minors were forced to beg and steal.
But in Romania all those charged were acquitted last year after an almost decade-long trial.
The Romanian judges complained about the investigation led by the anti-mafia prosecutors' department (DIICOT), saying a lot of it was "accusations based on hearsay", while leads on alleged bribes paid to local police were not followed up.
- 'Untouchable' suspects -
In its latest report about trafficking in Romania, the US State Department said "widespread complicity and the failure to incriminate officials hampered effective law enforcement".
"Trafficking networks have vast sums of money which often allows them to buy impunity," Silvia Tabusca, director of the Center for Human Rights and Migration, told AFP.
DIICOT prosecutors say that in some cases "officials from banks or town halls as well as police officers have offered protection" to trafficking rings.
Tabusca says there are sometimes also "suspicions of corruption" within the judicial system.
In a rare interview to AFP, 70-year-old Constantin Dragusin -- one of the accused ringleaders of the Tandarei gang -- admitted that "if we could have offered money (to judges) to be acquitted we would have done it, even though we're not guilty".
He says he decided against offering cash as he was convinced the judges in his case would act fairly.
"I am no mobster. I have neither stolen nor recruited any children," he said.
He says he repeatedly asked prosecutors to facilitate a meeting with the parents of the alleged victims, but this was turned down.
The deputy director of the local child protection agency, Neculai Badea, told AFP he also asked for access to the alleged victims in the Tandarei case -- but was likewise turned down.
According to Tabusca, the upshot of the Tandarei acquittals is that "the influence of the suspects within the local community has increased.
"They're are now perceived as untouchable," she says.
- 'Let them break their necks' -
Tabusca says victims' testimony is often changed or retracted during a trial.
"Physical or emotional abuse is normal for many of these children, who find it hard to realise that beyond the walls of their home there is another world where their rights are respected," Mariana Neacsu, a psychologist at the child protection agency in Ialomita county, told AFP.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/impunity-robs-romania-trafficking-victims-020130765.html
jury vs judge cases
A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact. It is distinguished from a bench trial in which a judge or panel of judges makes all decisions.
Jury trials are used in a significant share of serious criminal cases in many but not all common law judicial systems. The majority of common law jurisdictions in Asia (such as Singapore, Pakistan, India, and Malaysia) have abolished jury trials on the grounds that juries are susceptible to bias. Juries or lay judges have also been incorporated into the legal systems of many civil law countries for criminal cases. Only the United States makes routine use of jury trials in a wide variety of non-criminal cases. Other common law legal jurisdictions use jury trials only in a very select class of cases that make up a tiny share of the overall civil docket (like malicious prosecution and false imprisonment suits in England and Wales), but true civil jury trials are almost entirely absent elsewhere in the world. Some civil law jurisdictions, however, have arbitration panels where non-legally trained members decide cases in select subject-matter areas relevant to the arbitration panel members' areas of expertise.
The use of jury trials, which evolved within common law systems rather than civil law systems, has had a profound impact on the nature of American civil procedure and criminal procedure rules, even if a bench trial is actually contemplated in a particular case. In general, the availability of a jury trial if properly demanded has given rise to a system in which fact finding is concentrated in a single trial rather than multiple hearings, and appellate review of trial court decisions is greatly limited. Jury trials are of far less importance (or of no importance) in countries that do not have a common law system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_trial
https://www.smh.com.au/national/everyone-should-have-right-to-trial-by-judge-not-jury-20190821-p52j9i.html
The origins of the jury date back to the thirteenth century, when it seems a jury was a collection of local witnesses or local men of good standing. The function of trial by jury today is to decide facts based on evidence presented to the court, under the direction and supervision of the judge.
Juries are used in both criminal and civil cases, although they are much less common in civil cases. In all Australian states and territories, juries in criminal cases for serious offences (called indictable offences) consist of 12 people. In New South Wales, the requirements of a unanimous jury of 12 were amended in 2006 to allow for a majority verdict of 11 jurors in criminal trials in certain circumstances (Jury Act 1977 , section 55F). Some other states also accept a majority verdict (such as 10 or 11 out of 12). Juries are not used in less serious ('summary') criminal proceedings, which are heard by a magistrate or judge alone. In New South Wales, a defendant charged with an indictable offence who has a right to trial by jury may elect to be tried by a judge alone (Criminal Procedure Act 1986, section 132).
A jury verdict can only be appealed against if there is a serious error of law or serious misdirection by the trial judge. In criminal cases the jury determines whether the defendant is guilty 'beyond reasonable doubt' but does not decide on the sentence to be imposed.
In civil cases, the size of a jury varies between states. In NSW a civil jury consists of four people; in Victoria, 6-8, in Tasmania, 7; and in South Australia juries are only used for criminal trials. The use of juries in civil cases is limited, and in New South Wales usually only occurs in defamation cases. In civil cases the jury decides whether the defendant is liable on the balance of probabilities. Majority verdicts in civil cases are also allowed for now under the Jury Act 1977, section 57. In NSW, a coroner's jury, if the coroner does not sit alone, is six persons.
https://legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au/hot-topics-courts-and-tribunals/juries
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-problem-with-the-jury-system-in-australia-20190307-p512iy.html
lawyer vs public defender statistics win
Since the 1963 Supreme Court decision, America's prison population has grown more than tenfold—from 217,000 inmates to 2.3 million—largely due to decades of the war on drugs and tough-on-crime policies. It's been nearly impossible for the public defense system to keep pace. In 1973, the National Advisory Council on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals (NAC) issued a report recommending annual caseload maximums for public defenders. They are the only national recommendations of their kind but are considered imperfect. "Many of us don't consider them to be realistic if you expect quality representation," says John Gross of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). "These standards were established 30-plus years ago when, arguably, criminal cases were a lot less complex." And even so, these recommended caseload limits are consistently exceeded in public defenders' day-to-day practice. On average, a public defender would need about 3,035 work hours—a year and a half—to do a year's worth of work.
About 6,900 more public defenders would be needed to complete the current caseload. It's no wonder that many well-meaning defense lawyers are sucked into a "meet 'em and plead 'em" routine (PD parlance for meeting clients just a few minutes or hours before their hearings and then encouraging them to admit guilt just to get rid of the case). It's a large reason why 90 to 95 percent of their clients plead guilty, says Tanya Greene, an ACLU attorney and capital public defender. "You've got so many cases, limited resources, and there's no relief," she says. "You go to work, you get more cases. You have to triage."
Why don't public defenders just turn down cases they don't have time for? About 60 percent of state systems don't allow that. Plus, Greene explains, "There is no lawyer that becomes a public defender wanting to disserve their clients." Advocates for reform say there must be better pay for contract attorneys and other non-full-time PDs who assist with case overflow. The rates offered to private lawyers taking on indigent defendants differ by state, but a decent rate hovers around $65 an hour—pretty measly compared to typical private rates—and even then, many states also cap how much pay per case these lawyers can receive. Flat fee contracts aren't much better.
Justice on the cheap
Compounding the caseload problem is the money problem: Public defense budgets are paltry compared to spending on the other side of the criminal-justice system—prosecution, police, and corrections. In 2007, total spending by state prosecutors offices nationwide exceeded that of public defender offices by nearly $3.5 billion. That same year in California, the budget for public defense was about $300 million less than that of prosecutors. In 2008, for every dollar spent on public defense, taxpayers spent nearly $14 on corrections. Here's how these disparities shake out:
?Jonathan Rapping, a longtime public defense attorney and the founder of Gideon's Promise, a training program for public defenders in the South, explains that this disparity exists in part because of the stigma attached to the clients public defenders take on. "There is a view that public defenders represent people who commit the most heinous crimes. There's a sense of, 'Why would I fund a lawyer to help get a rapist or a murderer out of prison?'" Considering that 80 percent of defendants can't afford lawyers, the reality is quite different. "The vast majority of people who public defenders represent are those we see every day," Rapping says. "Maybe they did something wrong. But it's something relatively minor. And now they're sitting in jail on a bond they can't make, they've lost their housing, their job. For these mistakes, families are torn apart and communities are ruined."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/public-defenders-gideon-supreme-court-charts/
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dccc.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/bostonda/etc/stats.html
https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/should-i-go-with-a-public-defender-or-a-lawyer-of-my-choice-31757
innocent project eyewitness
Eyewitness misidentification is by far the leading cause of wrongful convictions.  Nationwide, 75% of wrongful convictions that were overturned by DNA testing involved erroneous identifications from victims or witnesses.
Decades of solid scientific research, combined with a growing body of real-world experience, show that eyewitness identification is often fallible. Simple reforms have been proven to increase the accuracy of identifications. Several exonerations in recent months have highlighted the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, but a Georgia man, Troy Davis sits on Georgia's death row despite the unreliable eyewitness identifications used to convict him.
https://www.innocenceproject.org/in-focus-eyewitness-misidentification/
https://www.innocenceproject.org/eyewitness-identification-reform/
https://www.innocenceproject.org/how-eyewitness-misidentification-can-send-innocent-people-to-prison/
Wright was born on January 23, 1962, in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, to Isaac Wright Sr. and Sandra B. Wright.[1] He was wrongly convicted on drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991 under New Jersey's drug kingpin laws. While incarcerated in prison, he worked as a paralegal and helped to overturn the wrongful convictions of twenty of his fellow inmates, before finally proving his own innocence.[2][3][4] After being released from prison he graduated from college at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton and eventually law school at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami. He graduated in 2007 and passed the bar in 2008. After a nine year investigation into his character the New Jersey State Bar Association's Committee approved his application.[5]
Before his arrest, Isaac Wright Jr. worked as a music producer for the Cover Girls, a 1980s group which featured his then-wife Sunshine Wright as a vocalist.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Wright_Jr.
mistrial court statistics
DOES JUSTICE FAIL WHEN THE JURY IS DEADLOCKED?
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=46839
https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/court-users/researchers-and-public/courts-statistics
https://www.courts.qld.gov.au/about/publications
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/criminal-courts-australia/latest-release
- blackmail, extortion, murder, supression, etc.. of political opposition? Once again this seems to be much more common then I realised and seems to be common around the world?
CIA's intelligence coup with William Binney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbDRDNHGYc
Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor, also known as Plan Cóndor; Portuguese: Operação Condor) was a United States-backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, officially and formally implemented in November 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America.
Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor is highly disputed. Some estimates are that at least 60,000 deaths can be attributed to Condor, roughly 30,000 of these in Argentina,[8][9] and the Archives of Terror list 50,000 killed, 30,000 disappeared and 400,000 imprisoned.[7][10] American political scientist J. Patrice McSherry gives a figure of at least 402 killed in operations which crossed national borders in a 2002 source,[11] and mentions in a 2009 source that of those who "had gone into exile" and were "kidnapped, tortured and killed in allied countries or illegally transferred to their home countries to be executed... hundreds, or thousands, of such persons—the number still has not been finally determined—were abducted, tortured, and murdered in Condor operations."[1] Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerrillas.[11] Although it was described by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as "a cooperative effort by the intelligence/security services of several South American countries to combat terrorism and subversion,"[12] guerrillas were used as an excuse, as they were never substantial enough to control territory, gain material support by any foreign power, or otherwise threaten national security.[13][14][15] Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. Ecuador and Peru later joined the operation in more peripheral roles.[16][17]
The United States government provided planning, coordinating, training on torture,[18] technical support and supplied military aid to the Juntas during the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and the Reagan administrations.[2] Such support was frequently routed through the CIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/russian-activist-alexei-navalny-unconscious-after-being-poisoned/ar-BB18aUW0
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/266159265/1988-execution-of-30000-political-prisoners-still-haunts-iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners
- segregate people so that empathy and solidarity can't develop between different groups of people. This means that a total breakdown of the system is less likely. This is really apparent as you progress through the education system and into the corporate world. You'll notice many differences. One of the big things is how demographics flip? You'll notice that most of the people in lower socio-economic demographic schools tend to be immigrants and many come from politlcal unstable/war torn countries while those from middle-upper socio-economic and are very, very white and have had a relatively easy life? It makes you wodner whether there is a deliberate policy, an underlying factors, systemic bias, etc? Former military people have said that there is no cultural training. You're told to simply follow orders. Suspect that this is so that people don't mix and emphasise and create peace? Ironically, due to the way in which the world is bad peace is bad for those at the top?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/some-counter-terrorism-defense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/shale-oil-some-us-intelligencedefense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-occupy-movement-veterans-for-peace.html
On Contact - Patriotism & Dissent with Danny Sjursen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBSLZz7P1A
https://www.thenation.com/authors/danny-sjursen/
https://skepticalvet.com/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/danny-sjursen
https://truthout.org/authors/danny-sjursen/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Danny+Sjursen
Renegade Inc - The State or Private school debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bLFBNPpaw
Boys Club - Private school privilege and a culture of cover up _ Four Corners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxPM-g6U2g
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Presentation_College,_Perth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelia_Cash
demographic public schools
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/department/Pages/factsandfigures.aspx
https://mccrindle.com.au/insights/blogarchive/national-education-report-a-snapshot-of-schools-in-australia-in-2015/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494819-police-in-uk-schools/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=last+chance+high
Last Chance High
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o6Aj8MXuh9GK5ZooRpLMGBp
Behind the gates of Australia's 'last chance' school | Australian Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnc9ObCxwwg
The occupation government closed all schools operated by the Ethiopian church, or by missionaries. They were replaced with two new systems. There was a prestige operation for Italians, and rudimentary one for native Ethiopians. Textbooks featured the glory and power of Mussolini and promoted military careers. The natives were given a rudimentary primary education focused on producing submissive and obedient servants of the empire. New school buildings were constructed for the Italian colonists.[92] The "Plan for development of Italian Addis Abeba" in 1939 proposed the creation of the first university in Ethiopia[93], but WW2 blocked it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ethiopia
south vietnamese life under french colonialism
French colonialism did provide some benefits for Vietnamese society, most noticeable of which were improvements in education.
French missionaries, officials and their families opened primary schools and provided lessons in both French and Viet languages. The University of Hanoi was opened by colonists in 1902 and became an important national centre of learning. A quota of Viet students was given scholarships to study in France.
These changes, however, were really only significant in the cities: there was little or no attempt to educate the children of peasant farmers. The syllabuses at these schools reinforced colonial control by stressing the supremacy of French values and culture.
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1. The French colonisation of Vietnam began in earnest in the 1880s and lasted six decades. The French justified their imperialism with a 'civilising mission', a pledge to develop backward nations.
2. In reality, French colonialism was chiefly driven by economic interests. French colonists were interested in acquiring land, exploiting labour, exporting resources and making profit.
3. Vietnamese land was seized by the French and collectivised into large rice and rubber plantations. Local farmers were forced to labour on these plantations in difficult and dangerous conditions.
4. The French also imposed a range of taxes on the local population and implemented monopolies on critical goods, such as opium, salt and alcohol.
5. French colonisers were relatively few in number so were assisted by Francophile collaborators among the Vietnamese people. These collaborators assisted in the administration and exploitation of French Indochina.
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina
breakdown funding schools
funding religious vs public schools
The data also shows that, in Victoria: public schools remain by far the lowest funded in the country. private schools had 70% more recurrent income to spend per student than public schools – the largest gap in the nation. private schools are spending three and a half times more on capital works than public schools.
https://www.aeuvic.asn.au/funding-gap-between-public-and-private-schools-revealed
Do Catholic schools get more funding than public schools?
Most were low-fee Catholic schools. ... But, on average, public funding makes up 95 per cent of the typical public school's total income, compared to 73 per cent for Catholic schools and 43 per cent for independent schools. (For public schools, most public funding comes from state and territory governments
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-22/counting-the-cost-of-the-education-revolution/10495756
Stop all government funding for private schools. (Why and how we could do it)
https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=5056
school fees by school type
https://www.goodschools.com.au/start-here/financing-your-childs-education/school-fees
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/parents/going-to-school/Pages/school-costs.aspx
bullying private vs public school
HILDA tracked a sample of 13,000 households in New South Wales between 2001 and 2012. The data on schools comes from 2012 when participants were asked a range of educational questions.
Households with school-aged children were asked whether or not their child was bullied at school. A higher proportion of parents of children in state schools reported their child was bullied compared with private schools. The differences were greatest for high schools, with 22% of parents at state schools reporting their child was bullied, compared to 15% in Catholic and 11% in other private schools.
https://www.kidspot.com.au/parenting/real-life/in-the-news/is-your-child-less-likely-to-be-bullied-in-a-private-school/news-story/16ad93434f625d55580a86354fd86ea4
https://www.smh.com.au/education/public-school-students-twice-as-likely-to-be-bullied-as-private-school-pupils-20150714-gibqck.html
https://www.fcbgroup.com.au/news/parents-refuse-pay-schools-fees-due-to-bullying/
https://meganmeierfoundation.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/bullying-in-school-public-vs-private/
mental illness private vs public school
https://psychcentral.com/news/2010/10/30/adolescents-in-private-schools-cope-better/20174.html
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/school-choice-is-improving-students-long-term-mental-health
demographic private vs public school
Students at private schools in Australia are more advantaged, on average, than their peers at government schools: they have better-educated parents with higher incomes, so it's no surprise they achieve at higher levels. The past three Pisa reports (the OECD's international problem-solving test for 15-year-olds, in 2015, 2012 and 2009) all found that once student and school-level socio-economic background are considered, there is little discernible difference between the achievement of private school students and government school students.
https://grattan.edu.au/news/here-is-the-expensive-truth-about-private-schools-and-student-learning/
Public School vs. Private School: Cost
Public schools are paid for by local taxes and, except for some small fees, are free. Private schools cost on average $10,740 a year but can range anywhere from $5,330 to $25,180, according to a report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Cost varies depending on the type of school children attend, with Catholic schools offering the best cost at $6,890 a year on average and nonsectarian schools coming in around $21,510.
Public School vs. Private School: Class Sizes
The difference between the public and private school class size, and student-to-teacher ratios, is considerable. In public schools, the average class size is 25 kids, compared to 19 kids per class in private schools according to NCES. Correspondingly, private schools have a better student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2 students, compared to 16.1 students per
Public School vs. Private School: Classes
Since they are not under state supervision, private schools can offer a curriculum that suits their focus. "If you have a child that wants to study the arts, theater, music, or other such subjects a private school will be a better fit," says Dynarski. "Due to ever-changing budgets and mandated testing, public schools are more focused on the core classes, often at the expense of more peripheral subjects."
At the high school level, many private schools focus on preparing kids for college. They tend to offer a wider array of extracurricular offerings, advanced placement courses, International Baccalaureate programs, and gifted studies classes.
Public School vs. Private School: Diversity
The nation's 33,600 private schools offer parents the ability to be more selective about the students that their child will spend their days with. "Numerous studies have shown that private schools, on the whole, offer a more positive peer environment," says Dynarski. Part of the reason for this phenomenon is the fact that private schools can screen who they allow in, and can tailor their offerings to the type of child they want coming through their doors. Plus, because parents are paying, students tend to come from a higher socio-economic class. Public schools, except some charter schools, are not allowed to pick and choose who attends.
Public School vs. Private School: Test Scores
A recent recap of high school graduates showed private school students scoring 3.1 points higher on the ACT test. The same disparity is found between primary and middle schools, according to the NCES. A comparison of mathematics tests showed private schools scored 18 points higher for eighth-graders and 8 points higher for fourth graders. Reading had the same results, with the private schools outscoring their public counterparts by 18 points in eighth grade and 15 points in fourth grade.
Public School vs. Private School: Religion
The separation of church and state is guaranteed by the Constitution and that means local public schools can't introduce religion into the classroom. A vast majority of private school students (79 percent) attend some form of a religiously affiliated school. A full 1.9 million kids are enrolled in Catholic institutions, making it the largest component of the private school universe. But, it's a system that is changing. According to the National Catholic Educational Association, 18.4 percent of all the students enrolled were non-Catholic, a number that has been steadily growing over the years.
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/private-school-vs-public-school-facts-benefits-statistics/
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=55
A 2019 study by EdBuild, a not-for-profit group of legislative leaders hired to study the school funding formula, found the majority of US schoolchildren still attended racially concentrated school systems where more than 75 per cent of students were either white or non-white.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-13/kamala-harris-joe-biden-vp-pick-what-is-bussing-in-america/12553416
https://www.lifeonthelinepodcast.com/all-episodes
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=life+on+the+line+podcast
https://www.youtube.com/user/thistleproductionsoz/videos
political demographic oxbridge
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/elit-j29.html
Of course, if you believe Oxford and Cambridge are simply our two finest universities, that they take the brightest and the best, and it's a matter of the natural order of things that their graduates should go on to govern us, none of this is a problem. But how can this be true? Just 7% of the population go to private schools and yet they take 44% of the places at Oxford, and 38% at Cambridge. What are we saying? That rich people are cleverer than the rest of us? That they're more able? That they deserve to rule?
If Oxbridge were just about education, perhaps this wouldn't matter: wealthier children get to study in smaller classes, in more scenic surroundings, with better facilities, and more resources when they're at secondary school. We accept this as fair and right (or at least not so wrong and iniquitous as to make any government look at the charitable tax status of private schools that makes this possible). So what if they enjoy the same advantages for their university degrees?
But Oxbridge is the springboard into public life. It's the means by which a privately educated elite consolidates its stranglehold on power, wealth, the City and the professions – and pretty much everything else: 82% of barristers went to Oxford or Cambridge, as did 78% of judges, 53% of top solicitors, and 45% of leading journalists, according to the Sutton Trust.
And, yes – what a hypocrite! – I did too. Of course, I did. It's almost a given. I work in an Oxbridge-dominated industry, and since, to my knowledge, nobody else from my alma mater, Radyr Comp, has ever become a national newspaper journalist, I doubt I'd be pontificating here otherwise.
Cooper was a comprehensive school girl too: the system allows a few of us through. (Though not many: between them, Eton and Westminster send almost twice as many students to Oxbridge as the whole of Wales.) But the problem with this is that it nurtures a dangerous myth: that we live in a meritocracy. It promotes the fallacy that Oxbridge is a means of channelling talent, rather than shoring up an iniquitous status quo. For those who get in, it's easy to believe we live in a country where hard work pays off.
But it simply doesn't. And Oxbridge is both a symbol and an enabler of that. Politicians and pundits have pat little phrases about "falling social mobility" and "increasing inequality", but this doesn't even touch what it feels like to be locked out. Almost an entire generation has been excluded from the life chances most occupants of the Palace of Westminster enjoy. Even within Labour, the Corbyn campaign noted this week, twice as many MPs went to a private school as come from a working-class background.
The party's former communications chief, Alastair Campbell, has argued for anyone but Corbyn. But in reality what's happening is the rejection of an entire political class. It's not anyone but Corbyn. It's anyone but Oxbridge.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/24/our-political-elite-oxbridge-club
Taught degrees Research degrees Total
Humanities 795 1,099 1,894
Mathematical, Physical
and Life Sciences 665 2,497 3,162
Medical Sciences 277 1,447 1,724
Social Sciences 2,905 1,220 4,125
Continuing Education 815 93 908
Total 5,457 6,356 11,813
https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/student-numbers
Oxbridge uncovered: More elitist than we thought
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-41664459
The study, published earlier this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard University were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean's interest list — applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard.
That number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students, according to the study, with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories.
The study also found that roughly 75 percent of the white students admitted from those four categories, labeled 'ALDCs' in the study, "would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs," the study said.
Almost 70 percent of all legacy applicants are white, compared with 40 percent of all applicants who do not fall under those categories, the authors found.
"Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the share of white admits falling and all other groups rising or remaining unchanged," the study said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361
While the earliest sources merely depict Gotama seeking a higher spiritual goal and becoming an ascetic or sramana after being disillusioned with lay life, the later legendary biographies tell a more elaborate dramatic story about how he became a mendicant.[127][140]
The earliest accounts of the Buddha's spiritual quest is found in texts such as the Pali Ariyapariyesanā-sutta ("The discourse on the noble quest," MN 26) and its Chinese parallel at MĀ 204.[141] These texts report that what led to Gautama's renunciation was the thought that his life was subject to old age, disease and death and that there might be something better (i.e. liberation, nirvana).[142] The early texts also depict the Buddha's explanation for becoming a sramana as follows: "The household life, this place of impurity, is narrow - the samana life is the free open air. It is not easy for a householder to lead the perfected, utterly pure and perfect holy life."[143] MN 26, MĀ 204, the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya and the Mahāvastu all agree that his mother and father opposed his decision and "wept with tearful faces" when he decided to leave.[144][145]
Prince Siddhartha shaves his hair and becomes a sramana. Borobudur, 8th century
Legendary biographies also tell the story of how Gautama left his palace to see the outside world for the first time and how he was shocked by his encounter with human suffering.[146][147] The legendary biographies depict Gautama's father as shielding him from religious teachings and from knowledge of human suffering, so that he would become a great king instead of a great religious leader.[148] In the Nidanakatha (5th century CE), Gautama is said to have seen an old man. When his charioteer Chandaka explained to him that all people grew old, the prince went on further trips beyond the palace. On these he encountered a diseased man, a decaying corpse, and an ascetic that inspired him.[149][150][151] This story of the "four sights" seems to be adapted from an earlier account in the Digha Nikaya (DN 14.2) which instead depicts the young life of a previous Buddha, Vipassi.[151]
The legendary biographies depict Gautama's departure from his palace as follows. Shortly after seeing the four sights, Gautama woke up at night and saw his female servants lying in unattractive, corpse-like poses, which shocked him.[152] Therefore, he discovered what he would later understand more deeply during his enlightenment: suffering and the end of suffering.[153] Moved by all the things he had experienced, he decided to leave the palace in the middle of the night against the will of his father, to live the life of a wandering ascetic.[149] Accompanied by Chandaka and riding his horse Kanthaka, Gautama leaves the palace, leaving behind his son Rahula and Yaśodhara.[154] He traveled to the river Anomiya, and cut off his hair. Leaving his servant and horse behind, he journeyed into the woods and changed into monk's robes there,[155] though in some other versions of the story, he received the robes from a Brahma deity at Anomiya.[156]
According to the legendary biographies, when the ascetic Gautama first went to Rajagaha (present-day Rajgir) to beg for alms in the streets, King Bimbisara of Magadha learned of his quest, and offered him a share of his kingdom. Gautama rejected the offer but promised to visit his kingdom first, upon attaining enlightenment.[157][158]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Renunciation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._McMaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._O%27Brien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Dugan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
"On the deterioration of democracy, it's become a joke. The executive branch of [the US] government has been completely purged of any dissident voice. Now it's left with a group of sycophants", he said.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202009171080494045-noam-chomsky-we-are-facing-end-of-organized-human-life-on-earth/
manchurian candidate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_(2004_film)
hsc results correlation wealth
Wealth plays a part too. The jewish schools you see high up there take in students from pretty wealthy backgrounds. Bialik only has 5% of its students from the bottom 50% of earners (77% from the top quarter).
Mount Scopus only has 3% in the bottom half, with not a single student in the poorest quarter. Nearly 80% are in the top quarter.
Yeshivah has a more reasonable spread, but it fluctuates due to a small cohort. 30% in the bottom half, 40% in the top quarter
Leibler Yavneh has 8% in the bottom half, over 70% in the top half.
Relationship between money and academic results
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=169317.0
https://www.uac.edu.au/assets/documents/atar/SES-and-the-ATAR-report.pdf
http://www.enoughwealth.com/2015/12/2015-hsc-results-show-how-little-effect.html
https://www.smh.com.au/education/top-atar-hsc-performances-the-result-of-years-of-achievement-20141210-12442a.html
Fairfax Media mapped nearly 330 metropolitan schools according to the share of exam results that scored 90 or above in this year's HSC. Schools in blue performed in the top half of the list; schools in red performed in the bottom half.
Nearly 90 per cent of Sydney's 55 highest-performing schools (shown in dark blue) are located either on or above the line, which stretches diagonally from Rouse Hill in the north-west to Tempe in the south-east.
Less than 25 per cent of the schools below the line performed in the top half of the honour roll, according to the analysis. Above the line, nearly 85 per cent of schools were ranked in the top half.
https://www.smh.com.au/education/hsc-results-2016-sydney-divided-by-education-latte-line-20161221-gtfhpf.html
https://www.thinkswap.com/au/hsc/economics/year-12/distribution-income-and-wealth-1

- as an aside, notice a near perfect overlap of confederate states and higher whiteness in private schools?

racism public vs private school

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers/

Students in the nation’s private schools are disproportionately — and in some states overwhelmingly — white.

While that’s not entirely surprising, a new analysis from the Southern Education Foundation quantifies the continued segregation of white students in private schools, particularly in the South, where private-school enrollment jumped in the 1950s and 1960s as white families sought to avoid attending integrated public schools.

Here’s a snapshot of the study’s findings:

1. Private schools are whiter than the overall school-age population in most states, particularly in the South and the West.

This map shows the gap between the percentage of all school-aged children who are white vs. the percentage of private-school students who are white. The biggest gap is in Mississippi, where in 2012, white students comprised 51 percent of all school-aged students but 87 percent of private-school students — a gap of 36 percentage points. The average national gap that year was about 15 percentage points.

2. Black, Latino and Native American students are underrepresented in private schools, also particularly in the South and West.

3. Private schools are more likely than public schools to be virtually all-white, defined as a school where 90 percent or more of students are white. Forty-three percent of the nation’s private school students attended virtually all-white schools, compared to 27 percent of public-school students.

The author of the analysis also puts forth a provocative argument: Because of this historical pattern, private schools that take public money (via vouchers and voucher-like programs) should not be able to select the students they admit. Instead, those schools should have to admit anyone who applies, just like public schools do, said Steve Suitts, who wrote the study as a senior fellow at the Southern Education Foundation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/29/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-u-s-private-schools-in-six-maps-and-charts/

Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3211736?seq=1

confederate states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)

https://www.richardcyoung.com/the-original-13-confederate-states-of-america/

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/faksld/a_map_of_the_united_states_and_confederate_states/

https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America

Vijay Prashad - Fascism & Islamophobia In India And The Movement Against It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrjQQAOpwiE

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8585073/Who-secretive-British-protest-group-Forever-Family-Force.html

- politicise everything including human rights, slavery, press freedom, awards, political ideology, etc... Ensure that the opposing side always looks the worse then they actually appear. This helps you maintain your system even if your system is massively flawed?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.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
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
How Can We End Corporate Media ft. Robert McChesney (TMBS 148)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI4alAAPFeU
https://au.news.yahoo.com/vietnam-where-independent-media-outlawed-opens-press-museum-042913288--spt.html
https://rsf.org/en
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/youtube-bias-algorithm-theirtube-mozilla-conspiracy-theory-videos-a9624936.html
https://www.amnesty.org.au/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/australia-looking-to-copy-us-and-adopt-magnitsky-style-human-rights-regime.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act

A Good Weekend analysis of winners over the 45-year life of the awards shows that a quarter of the top 200 on The Australian Financial Review’s 2019 Rich List have an Order of Australia, and they overwhelmingly have the higher-level honours.

About 130 directors of boards of ASX 300 companies have an Order of Australia, and the suburbs AC and AO recipients are most likely to live in are Toorak in Melbourne (which boasts 67 of them) and Mosman in Sydney (57), followed by Melbourne’s South Yarra (45) and Kew (34). Sydney’s exclusive Vaucluse has 39 ACs and AOs. The highest-level award, the AC, has never been given to anyone in the “Multicultural” or “Disabled” fields of endeavour, but of the 30 fields awards are given to, the “Parliament and Politics” category boasts 42 ACs, while “Business and Commerce” leaders have collected 48 of them.

More than 320 state and federal politicians have been honoured with the higher-level awards (AM, AO, AC), with a record 20 be stowed with gongs in 2020, more than half of them from the conservative side of politics. Women account for only 31 per cent of Order of Australia appointments. No statistics exist on the percentage of Indigenous nominees or recipients, but the Council for the Order of Australia, which selects the recipients, has not had an Indigenous community member since 2012.

The statistics paint their own picture, but the last Australia Day honours list, released just before the pandemic distracted everyone’s attention, rendered the idiosyncrasies of the system in technicolour. “That list lost people,” says one former Council for the Order of Australia insider. “It cracked open people’s uncertainty about the honours. It had a few too many rich people and a few too many pollies.”

https://www.smh.com.au/national/want-an-order-of-australia-it-helps-to-be-rich-powerful-and-male-20201123-p56h13.html

- ban protests, disagreement, and dissent. The interesting thing is that it's become obvious that if laws are created by politicians then whoever controls the politicians controls the laws and ultimately the police and secret services

Is Zimbabwe criminalising dissent _ The Stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX2XpZRsfR0

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/421503/us-federal-agents-abuse-power-in-portland-protester-arrests
https://www.rt.com/usa/496566-portland-federal-agents-withdraw-protests/
success rate protest
https://www.theperspective.com/debates/politics/do-protests-work/
https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-10-21/what-makes-protest-effective
Around 70 percent of major nonviolent movements succeeded in the '90s; only 30 percent did so in the last decade, says Erica Chenoweth.
...
Surprisingly, this proliferation of people-power movements has taken place amid a period of declining effectiveness for movements. While around 70 percent of major nonviolent movements in the 1990s succeeded, only around 30 percent did so from 2010 to 2017. Protests have been easier to start but more difficult to resolve. So, have the movements of 2019 broken these trends?
We link the declining rates of effectiveness and their potential reversal to the emergence of parallel global networks of protesters and repressive governments (both dictatorships and democracies), who use increasing access to global information to rapidly learn from one another. This means that ideas, symbols, and tactics that both help movements succeed and successfully suppress them spread quickly from their origins to other struggles. In the past, waves of successful protests often lasted years. What we are seeing now—and are likely to see more of in the future—are short, sharp waves of successful protests followed by short waves of failures.
https://sojo.net/magazine/april-2020/why-today-s-protests-are-easier-start-and-less-successful
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?uri=nyt://newsletter/375eeb8b-49fd-4a0f-933c-9ef2ed0a10d8
https://www.russh.com/how-many-people-need-to-protest/
protests statistics trend
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/03/10/political-protests-have-become-more-widespread-and-more-frequent
https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/protests-and-uprisings/
https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/protest-tracker
https://www.csis.org/analysis/age-mass-protests-understanding-escalating-global-trend
https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-violence-in-america-new-data-for-summer-2020/
- crackdowns on whistleblowers/activists and politicisation of such issues is much more common then I thought around the world?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/shale-oil-some-us-intelligencedefense.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-background-economic-warfare-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/middle-easternafricanasian-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-occupy-movement-veterans-for-peace.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/01/does-military-industrial-complex-make.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mole+austin+powers
Austin Powers | Moley Moley Mole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrBxWcBXow
Austin Powers THE MOLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5G04nJecI
Austin Powers - Mole Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxhdPNXC_k
Mole Scenes - Austin Powers Goldember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3cmAzM-MbI
https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/arrests-of-9-thai-activists-on-wanted-list-condemned/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/498538-charles-negy-racism-professor/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act
corporate whistleblowers
https://fortune.com/2019/09/27/what-is-a-whistleblower-famous-examples-business/
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2018/07/01/should-whistleblower-be-compensated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower
A federal court has ruled that the US intelligence's surveillance program exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden was unlawful, and possibly unconstitutional.  
https://www.dw.com/en/nsa-snowden/a-54797779
The Trump administration has said it will freeze US assets belonging to the ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and one of her aides. Washington is angry at the court's investigation of alleged war crimes by US troops.    
https://www.dw.com/en/us-sanctions-icc-chief-prosecutor-fatou-bensouda/a-54796337
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alexander-vindmans-brother-files-complaint-with-pentagon-inspector-general-claiming-retaliation
With one SAS soldier costing about $2 million in training and irreplaceable experience, the loss to Australia's defence capability is enormous.
There are 500 in the SAS regiment, but only 100 saw combat in Iraq. They left as soon as their job was finished and were replaced by 300 commandos.
Four SAS soldiers who fought in Iraq 12 months ago are back in the country working as private operators for AKE, a British-based international security group.
One veteran commanded a squad involved in heavy fighting in Iraq 12 months ago and was regarded as a huge loss to the regiment.
Paul Jordan, a former SAS trooper who runs AKE in Australia, said they took only SAS men as they were the best.
"We have 13 former Australian SAS guys in Iraq," he said. "We aren't poaching from the SAS. We only talk to troopers who have already put in their discharge papers."
But he conceded SAS soldiers knew they could walk into security jobs like AKE, where they could double or triple their income.
...
The Australian Defence Force won't say how many troopers have left the SAS since the Iraq engagement, but sources close to the elite special forces regiment say it is about 40.
Former West Australian deputy commissioner for veterans affairs Jim Dalton, who has taken up the cases of injured SAS soldiers fighting for more compensation, said many SAS were leaving because of what they saw as a lack of government concern for injured SAS soldiers and their families.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/army-exodus-sas-troops-quit-20040502-gdiuht.html
Commenting on the court's decision, Anas Mustapha, a spokesperson for CAGE, a UK-based independent organisation which works to empower communities affected by the so-called war on terror, said: "We welcome the blocking of the extradition of Julian Assange. However, once again the UK-US extradition treaty is exposed to be ripe for abuse as all journalistic and whistleblowing protections fell to pieces before it. Assange was spared only on account of his suicide risk.
"The ruling makes it clear, dissent and truth-telling is criminalised - the only dispensation is the risk of death."
https://itwire.com/strategy/uk-court-rejects-us-request-to-extradite-julian-assange.html
rape in mixed gender prisons statistics
Chronic Underreporting
None of the types of prison rape described [what he calls "confidence rape," "extortion rape," "strong arm rape," etc.] are rare. If anything they are rarely reported. To give you an idea of how frequent rape is in prison, if victims would report every time they were raped in prison I would say that in the prison that I am in (which is a medium minimum security prison) there would be a reported incident every day.
--Pennsylvania inmate.
Only a small minority of victims of rape or other sexual abuse in prison ever report it to the authorities. Indeed, many victims--cowed into silence by shame, embarrassment and fear--do not even tell their family or friends of the experience.
The terrible stigma attached to falling victim to rape in prison, discussed above, discourages the reporting of abuse. Deeply ashamed of themselves, many inmates are reluctant to admit what has happened to them, particularly in situations in which they did not put up obvious physical resistance. Rather than wanting others to know of their victimization, their first and perhaps strongest instinct is to hide it. "I was too embarrassed to tell the [corrections officers] what had happened," explained a Kansas inmate. "The government acts as if a 'man' is supposed to come right out and boldly say 'I've been raped.' You know that if it is degrading for a woman, how much more for a man."(357) Some prisoners informed Human Rights Watch that they have told no one else, not even their family, of the abuse. "[Y]ou are the first person I've told in all of these years," said one, describing a rape that took place in 1981.(358)
Prisoners' natural reticence regarding rape is strongly reinforced by their fear of facing retaliation if they "snitch." As is well known, there is a strongly-felt prohibition among inmates against reporting another inmate's wrongdoing to the authorities. "Snitches" or "rats"--those who inform on other inmates--are considered the lowest members of the inmate hierarchy. "These people become victims of [assault] because of their acts in telling on other people," one inmate emphasized to Human Rights Watch.(359) In the case of rape, the tacit rule against snitching is frequently bolstered by specific threats from the perpetrators, who swear to the victim that they will kill him if he informs on them.(360)
Prisoners who failed to report their victimization explained these considerations to Human Rights Watch. In a typical account, a Colorado prisoner said:
I never went to the authorities, as I was too fearful of the consequences from any other inmate. I already had enough problems, so didn't want to add to them by taking on the prison identity as a "rat" or "snitch." I already feared for my life. I didn't want to make it worse.(361)
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report7.html

A Good Weekend analysis of winners over the 45-year life of the awards shows that a quarter of the top 200 on The Australian Financial Review’s 2019 Rich List have an Order of Australia, and they overwhelmingly have the higher-level honours.

About 130 directors of boards of ASX 300 companies have an Order of Australia, and the suburbs AC and AO recipients are most likely to live in are Toorak in Melbourne (which boasts 67 of them) and Mosman in Sydney (57), followed by Melbourne’s South Yarra (45) and Kew (34). Sydney’s exclusive Vaucluse has 39 ACs and AOs. The highest-level award, the AC, has never been given to anyone in the “Multicultural” or “Disabled” fields of endeavour, but of the 30 fields awards are given to, the “Parliament and Politics” category boasts 42 ACs, while “Business and Commerce” leaders have collected 48 of them.

More than 320 state and federal politicians have been honoured with the higher-level awards (AM, AO, AC), with a record 20 bestowed with gongs in 2020, more than half of them from the conservative side of politics. Women account for only 31 per cent of Order of Australia appointments. No statistics exist on the percentage of Indigenous nominees or recipients, but the Council for the Order of Australia, which selects the recipients, has not had an Indigenous community member since 2012.

The statistics paint their own picture, but the last Australia Day honours list, released just before the pandemic distracted everyone’s attention, rendered the idiosyncrasies of the system in technicolour. “That list lost people,” says one former Council for the Order of Australia insider. “It cracked open people’s uncertainty about the honours. It had a few too many rich people and a few too many pollies.”

https://www.smh.com.au/national/want-an-order-of-australia-it-helps-to-be-rich-powerful-and-male-20201123-p56h13.html

- the funny/strange thing is that the higher you go up the more it feels like the system is corrupted? To keep things going the elite have to keep people from looking too deeply? It's a bit like a Casino they do everything to do to convince others that they have a fair chance but in reality there are biases inside of the system that prevents many participants from succeeding? Many of the elite are dependent on good magic tricks and subterfuge to maintain their way of life? Examples of this include the fact that white collar crime is more costly then street crime but the primary focus feels like street crime?

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/cvresume-harvesting-research-notes.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/it-business-startup-resources-random.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-09/ato-secrecy-over-kimberley-tax-scam-slammed/12534254
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-13/tax-office-chases-remote-residents-over-fraudulent-claims/11690766
US voter suppression - Analysts say African Americans targeted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdhTae2lK_I
white collar crime statistics
It is estimated that approximately 36% of businesses (PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2016) and approximately 25% of households (NW3C, 2010) have been victims of white-collar crimes in recent years, compared to an 8% and 1.1% prevalence rate of traditional property and violent crime, respectively (Truman & Langton, 2015).
Statistical Analysis of White-Collar Crime
https://oxfordre.com/criminology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-267
inequality and criminal behaviour correlation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_correlations_of_criminal_behaviour
conviction rate white collar crime
white collar vs street crime statistics
According to the FBI, the annual cost of street crime is $15 billion compared to nearly $1 trillion for white-collar crime. If you are shocked by these statistics, it is not surprising. ... As a result, white-collar criminals are extremely difficult to apprehend and prosecute, even when they do tremendous harm to society.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/wicked-deeds/201704/why-elite-white-collar-criminals-are-rarely-punished
criminal prosecution statistics by demographic
Arrests by offense, age, and race
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datalist
[208] US "Humanitarian Intervention" Is A Lie (with Dan Kovalik)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9clyMwe-uaQ
obama big data election
https://datafloq.com/read/big-data-obama-campaign/516
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295624658_How_President_Obama's_campaign_used_big_data_to_rally_individual_voters
https://www.datanami.com/2016/02/09/big-data-and-the-race-to-be-president/
trump demagogue
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/16/trump-racist-comment-democratic-congresswomen-kth-ac360-vpx.cnn
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demagogue-who-not-welcome-united-kingdom-guardians-editorial-board-says-1441723
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue
reasons for crime statistics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/crime-statistics
https://www.waldenu.edu/online-bachelors-programs/bs-in-criminal-justice/resource/why-national-crime-statistics-are-important
white collar origin
White collar
Main article: White-collar worker
The term "white-collar worker" was coined in the 1930s by Upton Sinclair, an American writer who referenced the word in connection to clerical, administrative and managerial functions during the 1930s.[2] A white-collar worker is a salaried professional, typically referring to general office workers and management.
Blue collar
Main article: Blue-collar worker
A blue-collar worker is a member of the working class who performs manual labour and either earns an hourly wage or is paid piece rate for the amount of work done. This term was first used in 1924.[3]
Pink collar
Main article: Pink-collar worker
A pink-collar worker is also a member of the working class who performs in the service industry. They work in positions such as waiters, retail clerks, salespersons, and many other positions involving relations with people. The term was coined in the late 1990s as a phrase to describe jobs that were typically held by women; now the meaning has changed to encompass all service jobs.[4][5][6]
Gold collar
A gold-collar worker is a highly skilled multidisciplinarian or knowledge worker who combines intellectual labor—which is typically white-collar—with the manual labor of blue-collar positions. Armed with highly specialized knowledge, gold-collar workers usually engage in problem-solving or complex technical work in fields such as academic/scientific research, engineering technicians and advanced technology industries.[7]
Other classifications
Some job categories involve duties that fall under one or more of the categories listed above, or none of the above.[8] These categories include:
Red collar – Government workers of all types;[9] derived from compensation received from red ink budget. In China, it also refers to Communist Party officials in private companies.[10]
Purple collar – Skilled workers, typically someone who is both white and blue collar; an example is information technology workers. They are principally white-collar, but perform blue-collar tasks with some regularity, such as engineers and technicians.
New collar – develops technical and soft skills needed to work in the contemporary technology industry through nontraditional education paths
No collar – Artists and "free spirits" who tend to privilege passion and personal growth over financial gain. This term was popularized on the reality game show Survivor: Worlds Apart, which used No Collar (in addition to White and Blue Collar as the tribal divisions);[11] also, people who work, but not for payment.[9]
Orange collar – Prison laborers, named for the orange jumpsuits commonly worn by inmates.[9][12]
Green collar – Workers in a wide range of professions relating to the environment and renewable energy.
Scarlet collar – Workers in the sex industry[9]
Brown collar – Military personnel
Black collar – Manual laborers in industries in which workers generally become very dirty, such as mining or oil-drilling;[9][13] has also been used to describe workers in illegal professions.
Grey collar – workforce that isn't classified in blue collar nor white collar. It is occasionally used to describe elderly individuals working beyond the age of retirement, as well as those occupations incorporating elements of both blue- and white-collar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_collar_color
Guess What Americans Are Most Afraid Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcaW5v69Xo
On Contact - Casino Capitalism with Natasha Dow Schüll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNzzEWMPhk
Wolff Responds - End Stage Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq41hyEtnmw
Keiser Report _ Laundering Feudalism _ E1546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6anmSlicgs
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1766336579790/losing-ground
'Last thing US wants in the world is democracy. It wants control'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnKKMFL6no
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
The World Today - THE STATE OF INDIA ­ PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfqLIhzchg
The World Today - THE STATE OF INDIA – PART 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiu9pCkzllo
Fake Fake News Is a Danger to Our Fake Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_OEKByvbdw
gandhi family india
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Mahatma_Gandhi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru%E2%80%93Gandhi_family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_families
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad
https://www.themandarin.com.au/136313-more-than-40-of-ex-abbott-government-mps-have-moved-into-public-sector-roles-analysis-finds/
david icke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke
https://davidicke.com/
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Icke
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+perkins
john perkins books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_(author)
https://www.amazon.com/John-Perkins/e/B000APETSY
https://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Smedley-Butler-ebook/dp/B0046W7MEA/ref=pd_sim_351_4/131-3990185-5331815
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-11/tax-the-rich-more-help-the-middle-class-says-oecd/10990644
https://www.smh.com.au/national/indigenous-prison-rates-can-fall-fast-here-s-the-proof-20200805-p55in2.html

https://100kopportunities.org/

https://100kopportunities.org/2019/01/22/the-100000-opportunities-initiative-plans-for-future-success/

https://getschooled.com/job-search/

- what's become clear to me is that many of the so called elite aren't that "special"? Those at the top, middle, and bottom of society don't realise that what they're doing isn't that dissimilar? People on Wall St and the local fruit shop salesman are trying to manipulate others into buying/selling things for a decent price (the main difference is that the guy on Wall St may have an expanded vocabulary as well as a drug and alchohol problem) to create a profit. Even more ironically, is that people who have dealt with homeless people and criminals know that what they're doing isn't doing isn't too different from many people in "normal life" as well? Another thing that many people don't realise is that those at the top are probably taking too much which is why those at the bottom don't have as much? If you were to understand the way debt/finances were being used then it'd be like rigging a Super Mario game such that those at the top get 10,000 lives while those at the middle to bottom get somewhere between 0-100 lives? It makes it very difficult for those at the bottom to middle to make any change to their life circumstances and effectively creates a de-facto tether/dependency relationship between those at the top and the bottom similar to that of the colonial/imperial period?
Keiser Report _ No Country for Small Business _ E1647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0aPJg0mFCQ

Keiser Report _ A Very Large Stimulus Package _ E1648

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHOXJAPvKQ8

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=super+mario+song+swing+your+arms

Super Mario Brothers Super Show Credits - Do the Mario!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uNCLBTje0

Super Mario Brothers Super Show Intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWYP95WbbY

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-crazy-justice-system-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/is-capitalism-collapsing-random.html
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/filthy-rich-and-homeless
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+st
Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6exo00T5I
Wolf of Wall Street - Best Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOQXlHVrQE
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=con+fruiterer
The Comedy Company - Con the Fruiterer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teitdS2Dksk
Daughters _ Con The Fruiter _ The Comedy Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Xmho2AuIA
Con The Fruiterer  - A Cuppla Days (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4aNzXKxwLM
deadbeat
noun. informal a lazy or socially undesirable person. mainly US. a person who makes a habit of avoiding or evading his or her responsibilities or debts. (as modifier)a deadbeat dad.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/deadbeat
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead%20beat
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/deadbeat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/why-are-some-us-police-forces-equipped-like-military-unit
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/06/it-pays-to-be-a-public-service-fat-cat/
deadbeat billionaire
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2019/04/09/the-deadbeat-billionaire-the-inside-story-of-how-west-virginia-gov-jim-justice-ducks-taxes-and-slow-pays-his-bills/
https://www.magzter.com/article/Business/Forbes/The-Deadbeat-Billionaire
https://oklahoman.com/article/feed/9881747/the-deadbeat-billionaire-the-inside-story-of-how-west-virginia-gov-jim-justice-ducks-taxes-and-slow-pays-his-bills
deadbeat millionaire
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/leon-cooperman-tears-up-talking-about-america-elizabeth-warren.html
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/145685-chris-bosh-stars-in-deadbeat-millionaire
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/7umzoz/deadbeat_millionaire_runs_from_rob_wolchek/
Definitions
1541: Spanish Conquistadors founding Santiago de Chile
Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas".[1] Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary defines colonialism as "the system or policy of a nation seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories".[3] The Merriam-Webster Dictionary offers four definitions, including "something characteristic of a colony" and "control by one power over a dependent area or people".[9] Etymologically, the word "colony" comes from the Latin colōnia—"a place for agriculture".
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy uses the term "to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia". It discusses the distinction between colonialism, imperialism and conquest and states that "[t]he difficulty of defining colonialism stems from the fact that the term is often used as a synonym for imperialism. Both colonialism and imperialism were forms of conquest that were expected to benefit Europe economically and strategically," and continues "given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism broadly to refer to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s".[2]
In his preface to Jürgen Osterhammel's Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, Roger Tignor says "For Osterhammel, the essence of colonialism is the existence of colonies, which are by definition governed differently from other territories such as protectorates or informal spheres of influence."[4] In the book, Osterhammel asks, "How can 'colonialism' be defined independently from 'colony?'"[10] He settles on a three-sentence definition:
Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonised people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonised population, the colonisers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
"Easy money fuels the rise of giant firms and, along with crisis bailouts, keeps alive heavily indebted 'zombie' firms at the expense of startups, which typically drive innovation.  All of this leads to low productivity—the prime contributor to the slowdown in economic growth and a shrinking of the pie for everyone.
"At the same time, easy money has juiced up the value of stocks, bonds and other financial assets, which benefits mainly the rich, inflaming social resentment over growing inequalities in income and wealth.  It should not be surprising that millennials and Gen Z are growing disillusioned with this distorted form of capitalism and say that they prefer socialism.  The irony is that the rising culture of government dependence is, in fact, a form of socialism—for the rich and powerful."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/black-lives-matter-immodest-suggestion
marketing budget vs business size statistics
https://deloitte.wsj.com/cmo/2017/01/24/who-has-the-biggest-marketing-budgets/
Marketing is responsible for leading revenue growth at 38.4% of companies. And while the 10% number may be right for some businesses, it's not a one-size-fits-all figure.
https://vtldesign.com/digital-marketing/content-marketing-strategy/percent-of-revenue-spent-on-marketing-sales/
https://deloitte.wsj.com/cmo/2017/01/24/who-has-the-biggest-marketing-budgets/
public service vs population size by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size
http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/379851455220883932/Size-of-the-Public-Sector-SummaryNote-120415.pdf
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/governance/brief/size-of-the-public-sector-government-wage-bill-and-employment
https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/public-service-and-the-federal-government/
https://stats.oecd.org/
To take a simple example, a conventional version of history is in terms of rulers, explorers, generals and other great or bad people. Naked power and agency is taken for granted in this version of history as battles are fought and territory conquered (or lost). The exploits of these great or bad people are felt near, far and wide, that is to say at different scales. We can easily find illustrations of the inter-connections of the PASH themes in the example of British history. For example, the commoditisation of land in late 17th and early 18th century England turned what had traditionally been common access land into 'parcels', where full property rights of the owners prevailed, and from which peasants where forcibly evicted. Known as the 'enclosures', the evicted peasants did not allow this to happen without a struggle and contested the power of local authorities and landowners. Ultimately these changes, among others, that transformed rural life in England at the local, village level, also impacted on the wider, national scale, as peasants became a class of landless labourers that eventually swelled England's cities and became the working class of the industrial revolution.
The usefulness of the PASH framework is that it provides a lens through which to look at development debates. For example, history provides a contextual basis on which to view the present and make decisions about the future. Power, agency and scale provide a backdrop to debates on different ways of thinking about development theory and practice, such as neoliberalism versus people centred models of development that you would have come across in the chapter. PASH also enables us to connect development theory with applied practice.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/international-studies/understanding-international-development/content-section-1.2
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dina+srinivasan
Three years ago, before she became an antitrust scholar whose work laid the blueprint for a new wave of monopoly lawsuits against Big Tech, Dina Srinivasan was a digital advertising executive bored with her job and worried about the bleak outlook for the industry.
"It just felt like, OK, Facebook and Google were going to win, and everybody else is going to lose, and that's just the way the cards were stacked," Srinivasan said. "I don't think this was widely understood."
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Srinivasan said she had an epiphany in June 2014 when Facebook announced that it would start tracking the behaviour of users across the internet — and outside of its network — to sharpen its ad targeting. Even as her colleagues celebrated the news as an important breakthrough for advertisers, Srinivasan could not shake the feeling that this represented a failure of the free market.
"Who the heck consents to having a company track them across the internet," she remembered thinking. "They could only do it because they had monopoly power to do something that clearly goes against consumer interests."
After leaving the ad world in 2017, she spent the next year researching and writing a paper on why Facebook was a monopoly. She submitted her paper to the websites of about a dozen law reviews. To her surprise, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, which is associated with the University of California, Berkeley's law school, agreed to publish her work. Srinivasan said she cried at the news.
Her Facebook paper quickly captured the attention of regulators. In March 2019, a month after it was published, David Cicilline, the Democratic chair of the House antitrust subcommittee, wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the agency to investigate Facebook on antitrust grounds, citing her paper, among other works. The New York attorney-general's office later asked her to speak to its lawyers about her work.
This year, she took aim with her Stanford Technology Law Review article at the other behemoth of the online ad world: Google. She explained the complex world of online ad exchanges, where display ads are sold and bought in milliseconds. Srinivasan argued that Google dominates nearly all facets of these markets, representing buyers and sellers while also operating the largest exchange.
While other electronic trading markets — namely, financial markets — are heavily regulated to prevent conflicts of interest and unfair advantages of speed and inside information, online ad trading is largely unregulated. She argued that Google's dominance inflated the price of ads — a concept described as a "monopoly tax" in the multistate lawsuit led by Texas.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/everybody-else-is-going-to-lose-tech-industry-exiles-turn-on-google-facebook-20201222-p56ph8.html

- once you understand that most people are doing the same thing and you can overcome your own sense of self loathing it's not as hard to make money?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wolf+of+wall+st

Wolf Of Wallstreet Matthew McConaughey [FULL SCENE] [HD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM6exo00T5I

Wolf of Wall Street - Best Scenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOQXlHVrQE

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=con+fruiterer

The Comedy Company - Con the Fruiterer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teitdS2Dksk

Daughters _ Con The Fruiter _ The Comedy Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Xmho2AuIA

Con The Fruiterer  - A Cuppla Days (1989)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4aNzXKxwLM

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+big+short+hedge+fund+manager

The Big Short (2015) - Synthetic CDOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIli9ckoYwI

The Big Short (2015) - Mark Baum (Steve Eisman) Meets a CDO Manager [HD 1080p]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25EUhZGBws

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/worlds-funniest-politicians-random.html

- if you understand how capitalism, neo-liberalism, etc... works then you'll realise that everyone is beholden to the wealthy, corporate interests, etc... regardless of how they achieved it?
Arnault's collection includes work by Picasso, Yves Klein, Henry Moore, and Andy Warhol. [35][36] He was also instrumental in establishing LVMH as a major patron of art in France.[37]
The LVMH Young Fashion Designer was created as an international competition open to students from fine-arts schools. Every year, the winner is awarded a grant to support the creation of the designer's own label and with a year of mentorship.[38][39]
From 1999 to 2003, he owned Phillips de Pury & Company, an art auction house, and bought out the first French auctioneer, Tajan.[40][41]
In 2006, Arnault started the building project of the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Dedicated to creation and contemporary art, the building was designed by the architect Frank Gehry.[42] The Foundation's grand opening at the Jardin d'Acclimatation Paris was held on 20 October 2014.[43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Arnault
wealth tax move france
https://nomoretax.eu/france-wants-back-rich-people/
At least 10,000 wealthy people left the country to avoid paying the tax; most moved to neighboring Belgium, which has a large French-speaking population. When these individuals left, France lost not only their wealth tax revenue but their income taxes and other taxes as well.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-14/france-s-wealth-tax-should-be-a-warning-for-warren-and-sanders
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4932482/Wealth-tax-forces-12-000-millionaires-YEAR-France.html
tariffs by country
The following list sorts countries according to their weighted mean applied import duty on all products. Import duty refers to taxes levied on imported goods, capital and services. The level of customs duties is a direct indicator of the openness of an economy to world trade. However, there may also be import barriers that are not based on the levy of duties. All data is from the world bank.[1]
Import duties are regarded as a variation of protectionism. The average weighted import duty in these important economic areas in 2017 was the following percentage: People's Republic of China: 3.83%, Japan: 2.51%, European Union: 1.79% and the United States: 1.66%. The respective import duty does not apply to countries with which free trade agreements have been concluded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_rate
company tax rate by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/corporate-tax-rate
https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-around-the-world/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_welfare_spending
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inheritance_tax_rates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization
The Milk War was a trade conflict between Russia and Belarus in June 2009. Russia and Belarus have close relations and the conflict stemmed from Russia allegedly attempting to pay Belarus US$500 million to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia also expressed its interest in privatizing the Belarusian milk industry. Belarus responded by seeking negotiations with the European Union on certifying Belarusian milk according to EU regulations. Russia then banned the import of dairy products from Belarus, citing alleged health concerns. The trade conflict ended on June 17, 2009, when Russia announced that it would lift the ban.
Later in 2009, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko expressed regret for not supporting Russia by recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Belarusian House of Representatives sent a fact-finding mission to the disputed regions to study whether or not Belarus should provide diplomatic recognition. Georgia protested the mission and urged Belarus to maintain non-recognition. Russia has continued its "checkbook diplomacy" and has allegedly paid or given military support to Venezuela, Nauru, Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Syria to recognize Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent states.
Russia threatened another Milk War in 2013, and reimposed temporary bans on Belarusian dairy products in June 2017 and 2018–2019. Russian concerns include Western sanctions that supposedly allow Belarus to take advantage of the market by producing products of inferior quality. In turn, Belarusian producers claim that Russia has imposed harsh obstacles on them. Belarus has objected to these trade wars, stating that they contribute to the country's international isolation.
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Since the Milk War, Russia has engaged in "checkbook diplomacy" and paid multiple states for their recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.[20] In September 2009, Venezuela became the third state to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent.[21] A week later, Russia signed "multibillion dollar economic and arms trade deals" with Venezuela, described by the Jamestown Foundation as a "recognition fee".[21] In December 2009, Nauru became the fourth state to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, which Georgia alleged was in return for a $50 million investment from Russia.[22] In May 2011, Vanuatu recognized Abkhazia; Vanuatuan politician Joe Natuman has stated that Russia gave Vanuatu $50 million for the recognition.[20]
In October 2011, Tuvalu recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but later withdrew recognition in March 2014 after Georgia offered Tuvalu $250,000.[20] Oliver Bullough, writing for The New Republic, stated that Tuvalu's decision "could spell the end of a years-long diplomatic strategy that has cost Russia millions."[20] Georgia has also given Fiji 200 computers to maintain non-recognition.[23] In May 2018, Syria recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia; Russia has been providing Syria with military support to fight its civil war since 2015.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_War
Sudan has just one more requirement to fulfill before it can be removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced on Sunday.
Khartoum must take responsibility and pay compensation for the Al-Qaeda bombings of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in 2000 and of US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998, Hamdok said.
Sudan is required to pay more than $2 billion in order to leave the list - $2.1 billion in damages to the families of victims of the embassy bombings and more than $300 million to the victims of the attack on the US Navy vessel, The Sudan Tribune reported.
While the Sudanese government was not directly involved in the attacks, the US has issued several court rulings against Khartoum for supporting the bombings.
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/12/9/sudan-one-step-away-from-us-terrorism-list-removal
In East Asia, the term has often been used to describe the competition between the People's Republic of China (in Mainland China) and the Republic of China (in Taiwan) to gain "recognition" with entities around the world, notably in the Pacific.[1]
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More recently, the term has been introduced as pertaining to the diplomatic recognition of the breakaway South Caucasus states of Abkhazia or South Ossetia by a short list of Pacific island nations. Nauru recognized both nations in exchange for US$50 million in aid from Russia. Tuvalu recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as well, after a freshwater shipment from Abkhazia and what is believed to have been an offer of aid from Russia. Vanuatu recognized Abkhazia (but not South Ossetia) after a suspected amount of Russian aid equivalent to that given to Nauru. Tuvalu and Vanuatu have since withdrawn their respective recognitions and reestablished relations with Georgia. Nauru is the only Pacific island state that currently has diplomatic relations with at least one of either Abkhazia or South Ossetia.[2]
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The term has been used to describe German and Japanese international involvement during and after Gulf War I. Their history made both countries unable to commit troops to the coalition because of restrictions placed into their constitutions when they were drawn up under allied occupation following World War II (see Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and Art. 87a of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany). Instead they volunteered large amounts of financing for the war effort. However, Germany was also providing additional NATO navy units in other regions.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkbook_diplomacy
Dollar diplomacy of the United States—particularly during President William Howard Taft's presidential term— was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.[1] In his message to Congress on 3 December 1912, Taft summarized the policy of Dollar Diplomacy:
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. It is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to the dictates of sound policy and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.[2]
Dollar diplomacy was not new, as the use of diplomacy to promote commercial interest dates from the early years of the Republic. However, under Taft, the State Department was more active than ever in encouraging and supporting American bankers and industrialists in securing new opportunities abroad. Bailey finds that dollar diplomacy was designed to make both people in foreign lands and the American investors prosper.[3]
The concept is relevant to both Liberia, where American loans were given in 1913, and Latin America. Latin Americans tend to use the term "dollar diplomacy" disparagingly to show their disapproval of the role that the U.S. government and U.S. corporations have played in using economic, diplomatic and military power to open up foreign markets. When Woodrow Wilson became president in March 1913, he immediately canceled all support for Dollar diplomacy. Historians agree that Taft's Dollar diplomacy was a failure everywhere. In the Far East, it alienated Japan and Russia and created a deep suspicion among the other powers hostile to American motives.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_diplomacy
Debt-trap diplomacy is carried out in bilateral relations between countries with a negative intent.[1][2] The creditor country intentionally extends excessive credit to a debtor country thereby inducing the debtor into a debt trap. This is done with the intention of extracting economic or political concessions from the debtor country when it becomes unable to honour its debt.[3] The conditions of the loans are often not made public,[4] and the borrowed money commonly pays contractors from the creditor country. Although the term has been applied to the lending practices of many countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF),[5][6] it is, as of 2020, most commonly associated with the People's Republic of China (PRC).[7][failed verification] Bilateral agreements made as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative have furthered this association, especially regarding commodity-backed loans to developing nations.[8][9][10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=checkbook+diplomacy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/zen-monk-zoom-and-virus-inside-argentinas-65-billion-debt-deal/ar-BB17MuUM
https://tradingeconomics.com/bonds
https://tradingeconomics.com/stocks
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities
https://tradingeconomics.com/currencies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization
economic history of world
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/2000-years-economic-history-one-chart/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_world
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/the-economic-history-of-the-last-2-000-years-in-1-little-graph/258676/
https://www.youtube.com/user/telesurenglish/playlists
business size vs years survival
Roughly a third of new businesses exit within their first two years, and half exit within their first five years.
New businesses that exit within...
1 year 21.4%
2 years 31.4%
3 years 38.4%
4 years 44.0%
5 years 48.9%
Note: Figures represent survival rates for businesses started in 2010
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business Employment Dynamics
The survival rate of new businesses has been remarkably consistent over time.
https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/institute/small-business-longevity.htm
What Is the Small Business Failure Rate?
20% of small businesses fail in their first year, 30% of small business fail in their second year, and 50% of small businesses fail after five years in business. Finally, 70% of small business owners fail in their 10th year in business.
https://www.fundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-businesses-fail
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2016/strategy-business-unit-strategy-biology-of-corporate-survival
https://www.merchantsavvy.co.uk/uk-sme-data-stats-charts/
business failure rate by industry
NDUSTRY WITH THE HIGHEST FAILURE RATE
The construction industry is expected to grow 13 percent but its business failure rate is a whopping 25 percent. The transportation industry suffers the same failure rate. In both industries, 35 percent fail in their second year and 60 percent fail by their fifth year.
Here are the first year business failure rates of other notable industries:
Arts, entertainment and recreation: 11.6 percent
Real estate, rental and leasing: 12 percent
Food service industry (including restaurants): 15 percent
Finance and insurance: 16.4 percent
Professional, scientific and technical services: 19.4 percent
Source: the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Why Do Businesses Fail?
The top causes of small businesses failures are:
NOT ENOUGH DEMAND
LACK OF CASH
DYSFUNCTIONAL TEAM
COMPETITION
PRICING ISSUES
https://www.freshbooks.com/hub/startup/what-percentage-of-businesses-fail-first-year
Business Failure Rates and Startup Statistics for 2019
An astonishing 6.5 million businesses launch every year, but only a handful enjoy long-term success.
Like they have in the past, startup failure rates continue to hover around 90%. This presents some fundamental problems in the way many entrepreneurs approach their ventures.
Here's what failure rates look like broken down by year:
First year: 21.5%
Second year: 30%
Fifth year: 50%
10th year: 70%
https://www.national.biz/2019-small-business-failure-rate-startup-statistics-industry/
https://smallbiztrends.com/2012/09/failure-rates-by-sector-the-real-numbers.html
Top 10 causes of small business failure:
No market need: 42 percent;
Ran out of cash: 29 percent;
Not the right team: 23 percent;
Got outcompeted: 19 percent;
Pricing / Cost issues: 18 percent;
User un-friendly product: 17 percent;
Product without a business model: 17 percent;
Poor marketing: 14 percent;
Ignore customers: 14 percent; and
Product mistimed: 13 percent.
https://smallbiztrends.com/2019/03/startup-statistics-small-business.html
gordon ramsay restaurant results
https://www.realitytvrevisited.com/2013/01/list-of-all-episodes-posts.html
https://www.restaurantdepot.com/
zerohedge wikipedia
Zero Hedge maintains a number of financial views/theories which are considered conspiratorial, and/or hard-to-prove or unprovable;[65][21] notable views include:[h]
Price manipulation by high-frequency trading ("HFT"). The belief that investment banks/funds use HFT/"dark pools" to manipulate prices;[i]
Precious metals manipulation. The belief that investment banks manipulate precious metals prices to suit their derivative books;[j]
Plunge-protection-team ("PPT"). The belief that central banks intervene in markets on a frequent, almost daily basis, to support prices;[k]
U.S banks front running the U.S. FED. The belief that U.S. investment banks, most profitable of all global investment banks, have knowledge of PPT trades;[l]
Market illiquidity. The belief that market liquidity, when HFT and PPT flows are taken out, is low, implying prices are artificial;[m]
Chinese fraud. The belief that Chinese economic data is made-up, and that many Chinese companies are fraudulent (called "fraudcaps" by the site);[n]
Manipulation of house prices. The belief that central bankers, Mark Carney as most typical,[o] use houses as stimulus, by loosening mortgage terms.[p]
A connected theme from the above views is that central banks have nationalized capital markets, that prices are artificial and do not reflect economic theory, that U.S. financial institutions have profited from this, and that the manipulation of asset prices has driven wealth inequality in society and built up financial risks (due to the leverage against these prices). Zero Hedge often shows the chart of G3 balance sheets versus Amazon's share price (see graphic), concluding that U.S. taxpayer's money has been used by the U.S. FED to make U.S. taxpayers unemployed.
Bearish macroeconomic views and conspiracy theories aside, Zero Hedge is noted as a source of detailed, but proprietary, research from Wall Street investment banks and institutions, on securities, which can be picked up by the financial media.[66][67][68] Sometimes, the research is about other investment banks.[69] It has also been a source of breaking news in the general capital markets industry.[70][23][71][72] In Zero Hedge's early years, it was associated with exposing the unknown world of High-frequency trading ("HFT"), and the HFT techniques that Zero Hedge claimed amounted to market manipulation.[23][73]
Zero Hedge is known for personalized attacks on specific finance professionals, examples being newsletter writer and commodity analyst Dennis Gartman (over 758 articles),[74] Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (over 703 articles),[75] and fund manager Whitney Tilson (over 325 articles),[76] amongst others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivandjiiski
- the rise of the Great Powers doesn't make sense unless you understand the impact of imperialism and colonialism and why military power is so important in global affairs (military power is often used to get or intimidate other countries into getting what they want. Hence, the South China Sea issue and why Chinese military power is such as issue for others such as the United States?). If you dig further then you'll realise that modern corporate strategy isn't that different from that of former colonial policies? Moreover, the major international bodies are rigged?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/china-vs-usa-research-notes-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-case-for-and-against-chinas-rise.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/politics-policy-people/geography/developing-countries-the-world-trade-regime/content-section-0

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/how-do-empires-work/content-section-0

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wto+protest+debate

The Seattle 1999 WTO protest was a battle for food sovereignty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBljGGRcyVY

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vandana+shiva

colonial companies
A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, and/or colonization.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_company
Chartered companies were established in the 15th through 19th centuries by European countries to conduct trade, exploration, and colonization.
Most of these companies have ceased to exist or have changed their business scope.
See also Category:Trading companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chartered_companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Trading_companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Oil_traders
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/colonization-and-companies
Chartered company, type of corporation that evolved in the early modern era in Europe. It enjoyed certain rights and privileges and was bound by certain obligations, under a special charter granted to it by the sovereign authority of the state, such charter defining and limiting those rights, privileges, and obligations and the localities in which they were to be exercised. The charter usually conferred a trading monopoly upon the company in a specific geographic area or for a specific type of trade item.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/chartered-company
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/06/east-india-company-british-businessman
east india company profit
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/british-east-india-trading-company-most-powerful-business/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-East-India-Company/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jeff+bezos+and+the+reign+of+amazon
Amozon empire: The rise and reign of Jeff Bezos_ FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY 720p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt93zUZpGbQ
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/jeff-bezos-the-rise-and-reign-of-amazon
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https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1706088003533/jeff-bezos-the-rise-and-reign-of-amazon
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1708304963709/jeff-bezos-the-rise-and-reign-of-amazon
viceroy
A viceroy (/ˈvaɪsrɔɪ/) is an official who runs a country, colony, city, province, or sub-national state, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roy, meaning "king".[1][2] A viceroy's territory may be called a viceroyalty, though this term is not always applied. The adjective form is viceregal,[3] less often viceroyal.[4] The term vicereine is sometimes used to indicate a female viceroy suo jure, although viceroy can serve as a gender-neutral term.[5] Vicereine is more commonly used to indicate a viceroy's wife.[5]
The term has occasionally been applied to the governors-general of the Commonwealth realms, who are viceregal representatives of the monarch.
Viceroy is a form of royal appointment rather than noble rank. An individual viceroy often also held a noble title, however, such as Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Viscount of Galveston who was also Viceroy of New Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=china+and+russia+vs+nato
Despite sabre-rattling and muscle flexing in the South China Sea, the US is unlikely to engage in a direct confrontation with the People's Republic as it is doomed to failure, according to Dieterich, who recollects that the US has de facto "lost" four wars in Asia: China's civil war (1946-49), the Korean War (1950-53), the Vietnam War (1955-75), and most recently in Afghanistan.
"My Center for Transition Sciences (CTS) has developed a multi-variable 'Geopolitical Index of Relative Power of Nation-States' (GIRP), which we presented in Moscow in 2014 that clearly shows that the US and its allies would have won a nuclear war against China in the 1950s. But, even against the lightly armed peasant army of Mao Zedong, they could not win the Korean War," the professor notes.
The US as a superpower is today only "a shadow of what it was after 1945", according to the academic, who claims that it has turned from a "tiger with nuclear teeth" (as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchov defined it) into a "paper tiger" (as Mao Zedong called it).
...
The Chinese are not sitting on their thumbs while the US is trying to build an anti-China coalition; the People's Republic is actively forging multilateral alliances and strengthening ties with Russia and the Germany-led European Union.
Thus, Beijing is pushing ahead with the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a proposed free trade agreement in the Indo-Pacific region, which brings together the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its FTA partners, namely, China, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. Furthermore, the People's Republic is signalling a "positive and open attitude" towards joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), an "updated" version of the Obama-era Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) shredded by Donald Trump when he assumed the office.
To preserve the global balance of power, Washington should adhere to a symmetrical multi-polar world and give up plans of "subjugating China, Russia and Europe, in order to recuperate its former world supremacy", according to the professor. "Democracy and Justice in the world system are only possible between entities, which roughly have the same amount of power," he remarks.
"The only stable and viable solution for the species to survive is a new eco-civilisation, based on a global non-market economic system, in which the private tyranny of the market – a global plutocratic elite of profit mongers – and anti-democratic oligarchic political systems do no longer rule the destiny of the people," Dieterich concludes.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202007161079899396-why-the-us-has-no-chance-of-winning-either-a-cold-or-a-hot-war-against-china/
operation dead hand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
https://www.wired.com/2009/09/mf-deadhand/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-dead-hand-nuclear-doomsday-weapon-back-38492
https://warontherocks.com/2019/08/america-needs-a-dead-hand/
united states apocalypse plane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_plane
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/news/a28356/e-4b-nightwatch-plane-nuclear-war/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doomsday-plane-save-president-joint-chiefs-apocalypse-scenario/story?id=13782736
- keep control of the academics by controlling reference material, education system, think tanks, etc... You'll notice that a lot of guys who propose unpopular ideas get bundled out or get their funding cut? In think tanks, you'll notice that many of them are biased or often kow tow to particular known interests (if you spend enough time watching them?). Note, that academic research is more corporatised? In spite of this most major breakthroughs have been more along the lines of basic research for pure intellectual curiosity's sake? For instance, Aristotle, Einstein, Ramanujan, Newton, etc... and that more often then not the major breakthroughs come from outside of the existing elite?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/09/ancient-astronautsmythologyarchaeologys_24.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-17/university-casual-workforce-redundancies-dirty-secret/12462030
ON CONTACT - Wikipedia – A Tool Of The Ruling Elite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPrpKDjQ5U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner
http://virgil.gr/page/2016/10/4/wikiscanner
https://web.archive.org/web/20120408180929/http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
Wikipedia is generally thought of as an open, transparent, and mostly reliable online encyclopedia. Yet upon closer inspection, this turns out not to be the case.
In fact, the English Wikipedia with its 9 billion worldwide page views per month is governed by just 500 active administrators, whose real identity in many cases remains unknown.
Moreover, studies have shown that 80% of all Wikipedia content is written by just 1% of all Wikipedia editors, which again amounts to just a few hundred mostly unknown people.
Obviously, such a non-transparent and hierarchical structure is susceptible to corruption and manipulation, the notorious "paid editors" hired by corporations being just one example.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wikipedia-disinformation-operation
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/aspi-on-the-job-again,-spreading-fud-and-begging-for-money.html
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/xenophon-asks-why-telstra-not-facing-queries-over-5g-gear-source.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jul/13/super-rich-call-for-higher-taxes-on-wealthy-to-pay-for-covid-19-recovery
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/11/well-see-you-after-dark-how-melbourne-police-target-african-men-in-high-rises
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/aspi-on-the-job-again,-spreading-fud-and-begging-for-money.html
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/telstra-logo-on-aspi-site-now-you-see-it,-now-you-don-t.html
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/aspi-sensitive-to-fact-that-china-study-paid-for-by-us-state-department.html
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/if-aspi-is-to-be-believed,-the-us-has-never-interfered-in-elections.html
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-175-the-rand-corporation-exposed/
https://www.corbettreport.com/tag/rand-corporation/
https://www.rt.com/usa/508725-fbi-cisa-think-tanks-hackers/
'We Have The Knee of America On Our Necks'- Exonerated Central Park Five's Dr. Yusef Salaam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWyyevIgPuI
think tank accuracy
As with universities, most think tanks have some sort of general ideological bent -- either to the left or the right -- but are tasked with providing legitimate, evidence-based research. Think tanks issue official studies and reports that inform public policy, and deploy expert consultants to work with lawmakers on particular initiatives. Lawmakers rely on think tanks to provide them with the in-depth analysis they need to inform their decisions.
That's the ideal, anyway. In the moneyed world of politics, however, things don't always function as designed. Because think tank are often funded by wealthy sponsors -- both individuals and corporations -- their objectivity can be called into question.
A recent investigative report in The New York Times found that think tanks like the Brookings Institution regularly consult with wealthy donors before completing studies and releasing their findings. Uncovered documents suggest that many think tanks are actively pushing corporate agendas and blurring the line between research and lobbying. It's a sobering article -- well worth a read.
Check out Jules report for more details and some interesting revelations about the origins of the think tank. Or click on over to Jules' earlier report on the influence of Wall Street.
https://www.seeker.com/what-are-think-tanks-and-can-they-be-trusted-1997665828.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html
- this brings me to my next point the method of classification of intelligence of humans feels very strange? If you can train someone to achieve a better score surely it's not a good test? Surely, if IQ tests are based on genetics then the supposed intelligence/IQ of someone isn't supposed to go up based on training and the correlations would make more sense (critical thinking should be consistenly higher in people with higher IQ people but isn't, why some supposedly dumb people score well, supposedly smart people score not as well, etc?)? Moroever, if intelligence comes down to knowledge then surely this comes down to a correlation with level with education which often corresponds to wealth level? This means that there even if two people have the same genetic potential the person who is wealthier will always appear to look more talented and achieve more in a Wealth-Talent schism? Obviously, this also means that we're idolising people who are essentially wealthy? A person from a lower demographic has to work harder to achieve anything near or beyond that same level?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
colonial education
http://www.excite.com/education/education/colonial-education
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/postcolonialstudies/2014/06/20/colonial-education/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/Education-in-British-colonies-and-former-colonies
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Society-for-the-Propagation-of-the-Gospel-in-Foreign-Parts
https://www.britannica.com/topic/education/Colonialism-and-its-consequences
Media hiding Al Sharpton's history of hate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbMs8GLXoqM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Comments_on_gay_and_lesbian_people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism
african inventions
https://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/01/12-african-inventions-that-changed-the-world/
For the most part, our history textbooks here in the States love to portray Africa as an uncivilized continent. In schools, we learn about the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, the Industrial revolution, and countless other 'revolutions' that all have one thing in common: they originated in Europe. Growing up and constantly hearing of European accomplishments and learning about history from a Eurocentric perspective, it's not hard to see why there are still people who seem to think that everything great derived from Europe. Spoiler Alert: African history existed before slavery despite what textbook publishers want you to believe. Here are ten inventions that originated from Africa and have changed the entire course of human history.
1. Math
2. Art
3. Writing
4. Language
5. Medicine
6. Mining and Metallurgy
7. Architecture
8. Phones
9. The Calendar
10. Cooking
https://afrogistmedia.com/10-african-inventions-that-changed-the-world/
https://www.nature.com/news/million-year-old-ash-hints-at-origins-of-cooking-1.10372
https://study.com/academy/lesson/ancient-african-inventions.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_African_inventions_and_discoveries
iq correlation demographic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2019/08/14/statistics-show-iq-disparities-between-races-heres-what-that-really-means/#643968ff4490
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
african language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa
african diet
https://oldwayspt.org/traditional-diets/african-heritage-diet/african-heritage-diet-pyramid-0
https://oldwayspt.org/traditional-diets/african-heritage-diet
https://foodsfromafrica.com/african-traditional-diet/
einstein africa program
We enable the continent's youth to shape the continent's future through Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) education- training Africa's next generation of leaders. ... The AIMS Next Einstein Initiative is working to operate fifteen centres of excellence across Africa by 2023.
https://www.nexteinstein.org/about-us/
erasmus eu program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
highest iq sportsmen
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53089/11-really-smart-athletes
https://www.thesportster.com/entertainment/top-15-athletes-you-wouldnt-expect-to-be-geniuses/
https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/top-10-smartest-athletes-in-professional-sports/
https://www.thedelite.com/the-smartest-athletes-in-sports-history/
lebron james iq
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1378277-power-ranking-the-nbas-highest-basketball-iqs
http://www.majorten.com/entertainment/27-celebs-fancy-degrees/21/
ben hogan iq
Dickinson once asked Hogan if he would submit to an IQ test. When Hogan refused, Dickinson surreptitiously asked him all the questions from the test over the course of a month and calculated that Hogan, a high school dropout, had an IQ of 170.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1992/10/27/hogan-one-of-a-kind
http://forum.brianmanzellagolf.com/golfing-discussions/5768-ben-hogans-real-secret-2.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hogan
bryson dechambeau iq
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-11-most-unusual-things-about-bryson-dechambeau
https://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/features/the-game/things-you-didnt-know-about-bryson-dechambeau-163198
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2018/09/05/intelligence-strong-game-and-belief-have-bryson-dechambeau-rolling/1204385002/
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/golf/american-physics-major-bryson-dechambeau-one-to-watch-at-the-australian-masters-20151119-gl38pe.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryson_DeChambeau
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/wgc/2019/07/22/bryson-dechambeau-golf-breathing-wgc-memphis/1761460001/
He keeps statistics and measurements that allow him to read greens in ways different than most, uses computer data to analyze every angle and movement in his swing. He wears the type of hat Ben Hogan made famous. He loves ping pong. And if he wasn't a professional golfer, he said he'd be a full-time researcher at a university.
"The thing people don't realize, I'm not incredibly smart," he said. "I don't have an IQ that is super up there. But I would say that I will work harder than anybody. I will stay there and have the grit and determination to get the job done."
He hasn't solved the Cube in a while because he forgot the patterns.
"But I could easily learn them again," he said. "I did rewrite a physics book once. Literally, it was just because I wanted to understand it at a deeper level and I heard that by writing things down you can retain information better."
Mike Schy, DeChambeau's coach as a child in central California and still today, handed him a book nearly 10 years ago that changed his golfing life. It is called "The Golfing Machine," an exploration of the swing and how to teach it. Since then, there's been a robotic element to DeChambeau's golfing personality.
"It opened my eyes to a different path in the game of golf," said DeChambeau, a physics major at SMU. "It allowed me to think differently. It was more of a technical book that talked about physics, about different ways to swing the club, to make it work. That, honestly, changed my mindset a little bit. Ever since then I've been trying to progress from that original mindset, of being technical but in a way that benefits my feel."
https://www.courant.com/sports/golf/hc-sp-travelers-column-20180622-story.html
intelligence definition
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Intelligence is most often studied in humans but has also been observed in both non-human animals and in plants. Intelligence in machines is called artificial intelligence, which is commonly implemented in computer systems using programs and, sometimes, specialized hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
West Indies legend Michael Holding breaks down discussing racism in the UK-QrffW5au8lA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-04/victorian-first-peoples-assembly-holds-treaty-talks-government/12522240
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-11/victoria-truth-telling-process-moment-aboriginal-history/12446102
aboriginal science
https://indigenousx.com.au/indigenous-science-goes-far-beyond-boomerangs-and-spears/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-04-12/walking-together-indigenous-science-camp/12066816
https://blog.csiro.au/five-ways-indigenous-science-is-helping-us-understand-the-world-around-us/
dna difference between nationalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics
- the absolute tragedy is that those who most often do most for society (whether for good or worse) are those that have to move between tiers. Whether it's donations to charity, scientific advancement, progressive political policies, etc... normally the gains made by those who move between tiers are far greater then those who are born lucky?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/12/angels-and-demons-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Freelancer-EI_IE392261.11,21.htm
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Uber-EI_IE575263.11,15.htm
well known orphan
Confucius, Moses, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Romulus and Remus, Adolf Eichmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, Hu Jintao, Chiang Kai-shek, Genghis Khan, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muhammad, Yuri Andropov, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Michelangelo, Henry Cavendish, Nicolaus Copernicus, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, René Descartes, Alexander Fleming, Ada Lovelace, Dmitri Mendeleev, Maria Sibylla Merian, Isaac Newton, Linus Pauling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Adam Smith, Voltaire, George Blake, William Bligh, Muhammad, Alexander Hamilton,  Herbert Hoover, Andrew Jackson, Malcolm X, Joseph F. Smith, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bertrand Russell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hendrik Lorentz, Karl Benz, B. B. King, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Ian McKellen, André Citroën, Wilhelm Maybach, Steve Jobs, Colonel Sanders, Levi Strauss, Otto Lilienthal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphans_and_foundlings
During and following World War II, the African American population of Berkeley, as in the entire region, increased substantially. However, the practice of racial covenants in property title deeds, together with informal discrimination ("de facto"), had resulted in the black population being concentrated in certain sections of the city, primarily in the southwestern portions. Consequently, public schools serving those areas had a disproportionately high number of blacks while virtually no blacks attended the schools in other mostly white sections of the city. The only exception to this was Berkeley High School as it was, and remains, the only high school for the entire district.
Heightened local interest in the concerns and efforts of the civil rights movement, shared by many in the community, eventually led to the adoption of a voluntary school integration plan starting in the mid 1960s. The plan included the use of bussing to effect an integration of all the public schools in Berkeley. The first schools to be integrated under this plan were the junior high schools, Garfield and Willard, starting in the Fall of 1966. A third junior high school, Burbank, was closed, demolished and rebuilt (by 1968) as the high school's "West Campus", serving all the district's 9th-grade students.
Two years later in the Fall of 1968, the elementary schools were integrated, utilizing the district's own expanded bus fleet.
Berkeley's voluntary integration plan, substantially modified, remains in place today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Unified_School_District#Integration_policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
Legendary biographies also tell the story of how Gautama left his palace to see the outside world for the first time and how he was shocked by his encounter with human suffering.[146][147] The legendary biographies depict Gautama's father as shielding him from religious teachings and from knowledge of human suffering, so that he would become a great king instead of a great religious leader.[148] In the Nidanakatha (5th century CE), Gautama is said to have seen an old man. When his charioteer Chandaka explained to him that all people grew old, the prince went on further trips beyond the palace. On these he encountered a diseased man, a decaying corpse, and an ascetic that inspired him.[149][150][151] This story of the "four sights" seems to be adapted from an earlier account in the Digha Nikaya (DN 14.2) which instead depicts the young life of a previous Buddha, Vipassi.[151]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_characteristics_of_the_Buddha
eminem charity
https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/glitzy-giving/eminem.html
Hip-hop artist has been generous with his money, especially to those who live in Africa. On June 4, 2015, he didn't just make a charitable contribution, he started an initiative that would prove to be the most ambitious charitable endeavor in entertainment history. He launched a plan to bring electricity to the 600 million people in Africa who didn't have it. His initiative wasn't designed to use traditional electricity with power lines. His plan was to start the Solar Academy, which would allow engineers in Africa to harness the energy from the sun to provide electricity to the 600 million people who are without it.
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He also works with the Orca Network, the Save a Life Foundation, The Healing Circle, and the Shriners Hospitals for Children. These are very important organizations. He has even started an athletic program for kids which is called Snoop Youth Football League. Not only did he create the league, he even coaches the kids who participate. Over the years, it is estimated that Snoop has donated over $110 million to charity. This is much more than most celebrities have ever done. He may have the street cred of being a bad guy, however, he has deep pockets and has no problem with helping the less fortunate.
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Eminem is famous for being one of the only white rappers who became incredibly successful and remains so. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan, which is known to be a very poor city. Things in Detroit have been getting worse year by year. Eminem got his start in Detroit. He starred in the film, 8 Mile, which is loosely based on his life story before he became famous. Detroit got him to where he is today, therefore, he has started a variety of charities to improve the lives of Detroit's residents. Through the Marshall Mathers Foundation, he is always donating money to help disadvantaged children in Detroit. He also started Eight Mile Boulevard Association and Nine Million. These are also charities that benefit the residents of Detroit. It is estimated that in total, he has donated over $180 million.
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Jay-Z is one of the most powerful men in the hip-hop world. He is also one of the richest. He is thankful for what he has and he has no problem giving back. He has donated a great deal of money to the Boys and Girls Club, Artists for Peace and Justice, and Music for Relief. After Hurricane Katrina, he donated $1 million to the Red Cross. Jay-Z doesn't only donate money to these causes, he also donates his time. In 2006, he held a concert in New York for the charity PlayPumps International. He was able to raise $250,000 for the cause. He has also made it his mission to raise awareness regarding the water shortage that has plagued many countries around the world. He paid for and produced a film which was made in Africa called Diary of Jay-Z: Water For Life. This film has raised a great deal of awareness and it is still trending today. It is estimated that he has donated over $450 million.
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When Kendrick was just 8 years old, he watched 2Pac record the music video for his song, California Love. He credits 2Pac as being his inspiration to start a career in music. While 2Pac was his inspiration, he sings about different things. Many of his songs focus on violence, inequality, and racism. This is part of the reason that he has won 7 Grammy Awards throughout his entire career. He grew up in Compton, and the mayor gave him the key to the city. He said that the reason was because Kendrick was able to raise awareness about the challenges and troubles that people have in this area. Like rapper Eminem, Lamar uses his money to help those in his hometown.
He has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Compton Unified School District's programs such as sports, music, and after-school programs. The idea was to keep the kids in Compton in the classroom and not on the streets. Due to all of the work that he has done, he received the 35th Generational Icon Store. It is very important to Kendrick to be a strong role model, not only for children in Compton but for children from all around the world. He has also donated a great deal of money to the Red Cross and he has headlines concerts to benefit homeless women and children, and people in need in India.
https://moneyinc.com/top-5-charitable-hip-hop-stars/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Outta_Compton_(film)
Is Compton a dangerous city?
Today, Compton has a population of 96,455 and is home to many great historical routes. However, with it's beauty, Compton is considered "The Most Dangerous City in California" due to it's high violent crime rate. Per 1000 residents, 11.97 will become a victim of violent crime. The national median is only 4.
Crime in Compton "The Most Dangerous City in California"
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=c0d80dc051a24251b062a613980e6b35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton,_California
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20151026/NEWS/310259977/eminem-prefers-his-philanthropy-to-be-done-quietly-and-privately
James was born on December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio to Gloria Marie James, who was 16 at the time of his birth.[3]:22 His father, Anthony McClelland, has an extensive criminal record and was not involved in his life.[4] When James was growing up, life was often a struggle for the family, as they moved from apartment to apartment in the seedier neighborhoods of Akron while Gloria struggled to find steady work.[5] Realizing that her son would be better off in a more stable family environment, Gloria allowed him to move in with the family of Frank Walker, a local youth football coach who introduced James to basketball when he was nine years old.[3]:23
James began playing organized basketball in the fifth grade.[6] He later played Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball for the Northeast Ohio Shooting Stars.[5] The team enjoyed success on a local and national level, led by James and his friends Sian Cotton, Dru Joyce III, and Willie McGee.[3]:24 The group dubbed themselves the "Fab Four" and promised each other that they would attend high school together.[3]:27 In a move that stirred local controversy, they chose to attend St. Vincent–St. Mary High School, a private Catholic school with predominantly white students.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBron_James
lebron charity
https://clutchpoints.com/lebron-james-donations-over-the-years/
Here are 5 of the biggest charities that Lebron James donates to.
After-School All-Stars
Lebron's Foundation began the After-School All-Stars for the children of his hometown, Akron. The Foundation has raised money and donated to the charity for many years. It began as a bike-a-thon, "Wheels For Education" to raise money for children in Akron to have help with education and a place to go after school. It developed into a program to help "at risk" children of Akron in a variety of ways. The program provides mentoring and help with education as well as extracurricular activities. The goal is to keep kids in school and encourage them to graduate. It begins in the third grade when students need to reach state standards to move up to the fourth grade.
The program provides reading and math help for children who need the mentoring and discourages them from dropping out of school before graduating. Overall, Lebron's Foundation has raised over $40 million for the program. Recently, Lebon teamed with the University of Akron to provide scholarships. The children must participate in the program and parents are encouraged to participate. Lebron is very involved with the program. When he cannot be there, he connects with the children via social media. The program currently sponsors over 800 children. The first graduating class will be in 2021. The scholarship covers $9500 annual college tuition for each student. Lebron hopes to extend the program throughout the state of Ohio.
Muhammad Ali: A Force For Change
Most recently, Lebron James donated money for the exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibit honoring boxing legend Muhammad Ali. The exhibit entitled "Muhammad Ali: A Force For Change" spans two parts of the museum honoring Ali, one celebrating his stellar boxing career and one celebrating his social activism. Lebron donated $2.5 million to the exhibit, joining Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson in contributing. Lebrom has said that Ali was an important inspiration to him as an athlete but also as a champion of justice. Lebron admired the boxing legend, who passed away in June 2016 after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease, for Ali's passion, goals and morals during and after the civil rights movement.
Boys and Girls Club of America
Lebron James designated $2.5 million of the proceeds from ESPN's "The Decision" special to Boys and Girls Clubs of America. While in Miami, Lebron was very involved in Miami's club. The club helps give all children equal opportunities and provides after school mentoring and activities. Lebron and his wife designed and donated furniture to the Miami club through Home Court Furniture. They replaced the roof and fixed up the children's work space. They donated 1000 new computers to 59 Boys and Girls Clubs throughout America.
Children's Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund started in 1973. Its purpose is to be a voice for children's rights and make sure that all children are treated equally and fairly. Lebron James' Foundation is a major contributor to the non profit organization. As with the After-School All-Stars, the program focuses on "at risk" children who come from poor backgrounds and helps these children complete their education.
ONEXONE
ONEXONE also focuses on the support of children. Their mission includes taking care of children by helping them with the 5 pillars: hunger, health, education, water and play. Like After-School All-Stars, the organization uses donations to provide help to those children who need it and encourages them by giving them hope and a sense of pride. The program provides healthy breakfasts in schools, water, medical help, educational help and after school activities. As with most of Lebron's charitable causes, he especially gives back to the children. His Foundation is a major donator to ONEXONE. Clearly, Lebron James never forgot the humble beginnings he came from. Without the help and encouragement of mentors like his mother and the Waller family, Lebron may not have had the opportunity to achieve the success he has. His talent as a basketball player and his humanitarian spirit have inspired Lebron to give back. He never let his ego get in the way of giving back to those who inspired him and to the children.
The I Promise School
Most recently James is made headlines because he built his brand new I Promise School for at-risk youth in his home town of Akron, Ohio. The news isn't surprising, as James has proved how much he values education. This the same guy who paid for 1,000 kids to attend college and started "Wheels for Education," a program that provides school supplies, access to computers and even bicycles to low-income kids.
"We want every kid that walks through this school to be inspired, to come … away with something, something where they can give back," James said in a CNN interview with Don Lemon. "For kids, in general, all they want to know is that someone cares. And when they walk through that door, I hope they know that someone cares."
https://moneyinc.com/lebron-james-five-humongous-charitable-donations/
https://www.sportsjoe.ie/football/cristiano-ronaldo-and-ronda-rousey-among-top-20-most-charitable-athletes-in-the-world-36137
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam was born on April 16, 1973 in St. Louis to a Muslim family.[7][8][9] Through his father Mor Thiam, he is part Dogon, an ethnic group of Mali.[1][2] He spent a significant part of his childhood in Senegal, which he described as his "hometown". A child of a dancer mother—Kine Gueye Thiam (née Gueye), and a percussionist father, Mor Thiam,[1][2] Akon learned to play five instruments, including drums, guitar and djembe.[10] At age seven, he moved with his family to Union City, New Jersey,[11][12] splitting his time between the United States and Senegal until settling in Newark, New Jersey.[10] Growing up in New Jersey, Akon had difficulties getting along with other children. When he and his older brother reached high school, his parents left them on their own in Jersey City and moved the rest of the family to Atlanta, Georgia.[13] Akon attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon
According to Akon (Aliaune Thiam, born in Missouri), he and Thione Niang grew up in Kaolack Region, Senegal, in a town without electricity. In 2013 both decided to help drive Africa's transformation. Samba Bathily joined them and provided targeted solutions through his company, Solektra INT, which supplies solar-powered equipment. By combining their networks, they launched the project in February 2014. Their initial technique is to install Solar street lights and small energy systems.[5]
The projects provided electricity in 14 African countries as of 2015 and employed over 5000 people, and Akon said they have reached 1 million households in African nations with their projects.[1] The employees, newly trained, were mainly young people who install and maintain solar equipment.[6] This initiative has taken advantage of the tariffs imposed by the US on Chinese solar panels, leaving the Chinese manufacturers with stock to sell, by lining up credit with China Jiangsu International Economic And Technical Cooperation Group to finance purchase of solar equipment, which allows the nations participating in the project to bypass World Bank loans to get a project started in their own nation.[1]
In an interview, Akon estimated that they have reached 100,000 households and installed 13,000 streetlights.[7] Their approach is to speak with officials at the national level as to villages that are likely for pilot projects in that nation.[7] Once a pilot project is successful, other villages will want the same amount of street lighting and household electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon_Lighting_Africa
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born in Long Beach, California, to Vernall Varnado and Beverly Broadus (née Tate).[11][12] Vernall, who was a Vietnam veteran, singer, and mail carrier, left the family only three months after Calvin's birth, and thus he was named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Sr.[13] His father remained largely absent from his life. As a boy, his parents nicknamed him "Snoopy" due to his love and likeness of the cartoon character from Peanuts.[14] He was the second of his mother's three sons. His mother and stepfather divorced in 1975.[11] When Broadus was very young, he began singing and playing piano at the Golgotha Trinity Baptist Church. In sixth grade, he began rapping.[15][16] As a child, Broadus sold candy, delivered newspapers, and bagged groceries to help his family make ends meet. He was described as having been a dedicated student and enthusiastic churchgoer, active in choir and football. Broadus said in 1993 that he began engaging in unlawful activities and joining gangs in his teenage years, despite his mother's preventative efforts.[17]
Broadus would frequently rap in school. As he recalled: "When I rapped in the hallways at school I would draw such a big crowd that the principal would think there was a fight going on. It made me begin to realize that I had a gift. I could tell that my raps interested people and that made me interested in myself."[17]
As a teenager, Broadus frequently ran into trouble with the law. He was a member of the Rollin' 20s Crips gang in the Eastside area of Long Beach;[18] although in 1993 he denied the frequent police and media reports by saying that he never joined a gang.[15] Shortly after graduating from high school, he was arrested for possession of cocaine, and for the next three years, was frequently incarcerated, including at Wayside Jail.[13] With his two cousins Nate Dogg and Lil' ½ Dead and friend Warren G, Snoop recorded homemade tapes; the four called their group 213 after the area code of their native Long Beach at that time. One of Snoop's early solo freestyles over "Hold On" by En Vogue was on a mixtape that fortuitously wound up with Dr. Dre; the influential producer was so impressed by the sample that he called Snoop to audition. Former N.W.A affiliate The D.O.C. taught him to structure his lyrics and separate the themes into verses, hooks, and choruses.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg
ayatollah khamenei childhood
On the 16th of July 1939, the future Leader of Islamic Iran was born in the holy city of Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan. Sayyed Ali was the second son of Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a humble and poor Islamic scholar who taught all members of his family how to lead a simple, humble way of life.
"My father, though a well-known religious figure, was a bit of an ascetic. We had a hard life. Sometimes for supper we had nothing but bread with some raisins, which our mother had somehow improvised.... our house, some sixty-five square meters, consisted of a single room and a gloomy basement. When visitors came to see my father as the local cleric to consult about their problems, the family had to move into the basement while the visit went on.... Years later some charitable persons bought the small, empty lot adjacent to our house, so we were able to build two more rooms."
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At Soleiman Khan and Nawwab religious schools and under the supervision of his father and the tutorships of some great religious scholars, he studied all the 'intermediate level ' curriculum including logic, philosophy and Islamic jurisprudence in the exceptionally short time of five years. He then started his advanced level studies called darse kharij with such eminent scholars and instructors as Grand Ayatollah Milani.
On the 16th of July 1939, the future Leader of Islamic Iran was born in the holy city of Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan. Sayyed Ali was the second son of Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a humble and poor Islamic scholar who taught all members of his family how to lead a simple, humble way of life.
"My father, though a well-known religious figure, was a bit of an ascetic. We had a hard life. Sometimes for supper we had nothing but bread with some raisins, which our mother had somehow improvised.... our house, some sixty-five square meters, consisted of a single room and a gloomy basement. When visitors came to see my father as the local cleric to consult about their problems, the family had to move into the basement while the visit went on.... Years later some charitable persons bought the small, empty lot adjacent to our house, so we were able to build two more rooms."
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At Soleiman Khan and Nawwab religious schools and under the supervision of his father and the tutorships of some great religious scholars, he studied all the 'intermediate level ' curriculum including logic, philosophy and Islamic jurisprudence in the exceptionally short time of five years. He then started his advanced level studies called darse kharij with such eminent scholars and instructors as Grand Ayatollah Milani.
On the 16th of July 1939, the future Leader of Islamic Iran was born in the holy city of Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan. Sayyed Ali was the second son of Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a humble and poor Islamic scholar who taught all members of his family how to lead a simple, humble way of life.
"My father, though a well-known religious figure, was a bit of an ascetic. We had a hard life. Sometimes for supper we had nothing but bread with some raisins, which our mother had somehow improvised.... our house, some sixty-five square meters, consisted of a single room and a gloomy basement. When visitors came to see my father as the local cleric to consult about their problems, the family had to move into the basement while the visit went on.... Years later some charitable persons bought the small, empty lot adjacent to our house, so we were able to build two more rooms."
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At Soleiman Khan and Nawwab religious schools and under the supervision of his father and the tutorships of some great religious scholars, he studied all the 'intermediate level ' curriculum including logic, philosophy and Islamic jurisprudence in the exceptionally short time of five years. He then started his advanced level studies called darse kharij with such eminent scholars and instructors as Grand Ayatollah Milani.
On the 16th of July 1939, the future Leader of Islamic Iran was born in the holy city of Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan. Sayyed Ali was the second son of Sayyed Javad Khamenei, a humble and poor Islamic scholar who taught all members of his family how to lead a simple, humble way of life.
"My father, though a well-known religious figure, was a bit of an ascetic. We had a hard life. Sometimes for supper we had nothing but bread with some raisins, which our mother had somehow improvised.... our house, some sixty-five square meters, consisted of a single room and a gloomy basement. When visitors came to see my father as the local cleric to consult about their problems, the family had to move into the basement while the visit went on.... Years later some charitable persons bought the small, empty lot adjacent to our house, so we were able to build two more rooms."
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At Soleiman Khan and Nawwab religious schools and under the supervision of his father and the tutorships of some great religious scholars, he studied all the 'intermediate level ' curriculum including logic, philosophy and Islamic jurisprudence in the exceptionally short time of five years. He then started his advanced level studies called darse kharij with such eminent scholars and instructors as Grand Ayatollah Milani.
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"In the areas of political and revolutionary ideas and Islamic jurisprudence, I am certainly a disciple of Imam Khomeini" says Ayatollah Khamenei. He adds: "Yet the very first sparks of consciousness concerning Islamic, revolutionary ideas and the duty to fight the Shah's despotism and his British supporters, was kindled in my soul at the age of 13 when the brave cleric, Nawwab Safavi, later martyred by the Shah's regime, came to our school in Mashhad in 1952 and delivered a fiery speech against the Shah's anti-Islamic and devious policies."
It was in Qum in 1962, that Sayyed Ali joined the ranks of the revolutionary followers of Imam Khomeini who opposed the pro-American, anti-Islamic policies of the Shah's regime.
Dedicated and fearless, he followed this path for the next 16 years which ultimately led to the downfall of the Shah's brutal regime: persecution, torture, imprisonment and exile could not make him waver for a moment.
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/2130/Biography-of-Ayatollah-Khamenei-the-Leader-of-the-Islamic-Revolution
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ali-Khamenei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode380_meet_gates.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode379_gates_population.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode378_gates_vaccine.mp3
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode377_gates_health.mp3
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Under Investigation-0nwRpMqHSWg
gates foundation donation breakdown
Last year, the wealthiest Americans donated $US14.7 billion to their alma maters, foundations, and various charities, more than doubling how much they gave away in 2016, according to Forbes. The recent list of 25 most generous philanthropists notably did not include Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest person in modern history. Bezos has been largely quiet about his philanthropic goals, though he tweeted in June that he intends to announce two areas of focus sometime this summer.
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/biggest-projects-of-generous-philanthropists-bill-and-melinda-gates-2018-8?r=US&IR=T
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/they-just-take-and-take-aoc-aims-soak-rich-proposed-new-york-wealth-tax
billionaire favourite charity
13. Steve Ballmer — 0.32%
12. Jack Ma — 0.33%
11. Masayoshi Son — 0.53%
10. Laurene Powell Jobs — 0.8%
9. Jeff Bezos — 1.9%
8. Larry Ellison — 2.1%
7. Mark Zuckerberg — 2.4%
6. Larry Page — 3.1%
5. Ma Huateng (Pony Ma) — 4.4%
4. Sergey Brin — 4.6%
3. Carlos Slim — 6.0%
2. Michael Dell — 8.9%
1. Bill Gates — 45.6%
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/tech-billionaires-who-donate-most-to-charity-2019-1?r=US&IR=T
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/24/the-trouble-with-charitable-billionaires-philanthrocapitalism
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/21/warren-buffet-is-the-most-charitable-billionaire.html
The vilification of billionaires makes no sense to me - Cooperman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bSONye1F5M
Economic Update - Pandemic Capitalism - - A View From Asia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GlRvWetXs
philanthropic spending statistics
https://www.philanthropy.org.au/tools-resources/fast-facts-and-stats/
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics
It's easy, amid press stories about the projects of large foundations or corporations, to forget that the vast bulk of American philanthropy is carried out by individuals. Between individual donations and bequests in wills, personal gifts come to over four times as much, every year, as what behemoths like the Gates, Ford, Walton, etc. foundations plus corporations give away.
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/u.s.-generosity
If instead of the average percentage of income given away by wealthy households, we look at the median percentage (meaning that half gave more than this amount, and half gave less), the wealthy appear less magnanimous. From 2007-2011, the median wealthy household (having annual income of $200,000+ or assets of $1 million+) gave away 3.4 percent of its income.
Interestingly, when rich people live in separate enclaves they are not as generous as when they live interspersed in normal communities. The "How America Gives" study showed that when households earning $200,000 a year make up more than 40 percent of the residents of a particular ZIP code, they give just 2.8 percent of their discretionary income to charity. If they live in more mixed neighborhoods and towns, though, they give an average of closer to 5 percent.
Physical separation and economic stratification corrode social cooperation and generosity. In towns, villages, and cities where Americans of differing fortunes live in more traditional combinations, though, generosity flourishes. And for many Americans, the resulting giving seems to be deeply connected to satisfaction in life.
"I came to realize that expanding my philanthropic activities could be both meaningful and fun," successful oil businessman Jim Calaway told Philanthropy magazine in 2015. "Making a lot of money and spending it on yourself is not a lot of fun," he noted in an earlier interview with the Chronicle of Philanthropy. "What is a lot of fun is to live modestly so that you can give to the common good. That's where happiness really lies."
https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/who-gives
millionaire spending patterns
https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/millionaire-spending-habits
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/millionaire-spending-habits-experience-shopping-two-worlds-discreet-wealth-2019-1?r=US&IR=T
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/2188200/how-spending-habits-millionaires-have-created-two
saudi royal family spending patterns
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/27/saudi-crown-princes-lavish-buys-some-see-hypocrisy-others-shrug-it-off.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud
https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/saudi-royal-family-s-1-4-trillion-wealth-and-lavish-spending-36040
qatar royal family spending pattern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/dec/09/london-qatar-royal-family-regents-park-200m-palace-harrods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting_practices_of_the_Al-Thani_Family
https://www.smh.com.au/world/time-is-up-for-qatari-sheikh-forced-to-sell-11-million-watch-20121110-294va.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/372882/uk-royal-family-expenditure-breakdown/
uk royal family spending pattern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_royal_family
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/07/01/the-royal-family-is-getting-increasingly-expensive-for-uk-taxpayers-infographic/#21e8d2cf14a4
https://www.rd.com/list/royal-family-spending/
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/meghan-markle-prince-harrys-reckless-spending-detailed-in-new-book/news-story/6822dbfa7a364db9b7357182fdc88294
thailand royal family spending patterns
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/thailand-set-fire-30-million-building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_the_Royal_Household
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Thailand
https://www.insider.com/how-richest-royals-in-the-world-spend-their-money-2019-5
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/24/21075149/king-thailand-maha-vajiralongkorn-facebook-video-tattoos
spanish royal family spending patterns
https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/11/inenglish/1491896482_530861.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10617097/Spains-Royal-family-sees-its-budget-cut-once-more.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8004484/Spains-Royal-family-cut-budget-for-first-time-in-history.html
average net worth politician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth
https://qz.com/1190595/the-typical-us-congress-member-is-12-times-richer-than-the-typical-american-household/
https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/10/25/richest-members-of-congress-by-net-worth/40290533/
https://www.zippia.com/advice/richest-politicians/
why are congressmen wealthy
They get their money from all over the place.
Darrell Issa made his money through managing his company, but he has since moved most of his wealth into the bond market. Others, like Senator Jay Rockefeller and Representative Joseph Kennedy III, are heirs to significant family fortunes. California Representative Gary Miller's real-estate portfolio accounts for 94 percent of his wealth. McCaul's wealth is entirely connected to his wife's family fortune—he does not have a single asset listed in his name in his financial disclosure. Senators John McCain and Claire McCaskill also draw more than 94 percent of their wealth from spouse-owned assets.
Congressional wealth comes from many different places, but one thing links it together: These lawmakers, unlike most of their constituents, do not draw the bulk of their income from a paycheck. In 2010, more than 150 lawmakers reported earning more from outside investments than from the congressional salary, which for a rank-and-file House or Senate member is $174,000. (In 2012, the median U.S. household income was $51,017, and the median household net worth was $56,335.) That discrepancy between the public and lawmakers may distort the congressional debate on topics like the capital-gains tax and the mortgage-interest deduction, which affect members more than they do most of their constituents.
It's a bipartisan, mostly male, and heavily white bunch.
Some members of Congress have attempted to address the gender pay gap, or the fact that, according to Pew Research Center, women earn 84 percent as much as their male counterparts. In Congress's rich club, men and women are represented proportionately, as women make up nine of the top 50—similar to the 18.8 percent of Congress they comprise, a record high.
Of the top 50, 20 are Democrats and 30 are Republicans, although Democrats occupy spots 3 through 11. (Sometimes portrayed as the party of the rich, Republicans actually represent districts with less income inequality than do Democrats, largely because Democrats do better in urban areas.)
If the party breakdown is relatively even, the race breakdown is anything but. This Congress, the most diverse in history, is 82 percent white. All of the 50 wealthiest lawmakers are white. Unfortunately, even in a club of top earners like this, one might expect elected black men and women to lag behind whites: For every dollar owned by a white household in the U.S., black households own around a nickel.
Americans may not have much faith in their representatives, but you can say this for them: The people Americans elect are pretty good at choosing what to do with their own money. Investments range from the mundane (Johnny Isakson, Bank of America) to the trendy (Jared Polis, Uber) to the wacky (Alan Grayson, memorabilia authentication). Who will top next year's list? It's too soon to tell, but Darrell Issa has a commanding lead. And as any member can tell you, incumbency is a powerful advantage.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-did-members-of-congress-get-so-wealthy/379848/
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/04/majority-of-lawmakers-millionaires/
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-richest-members-congress-made-money-house-senate-2019-2?r=US&IR=T
Making money in Congress
Once a candidate actually makes it into Congress, he's presented with new opportunities to increase his wealth -- some that are unmatched in the corporate world.
There are some ethics restrictions in place that limit the income congressional members can take in; for instance, they're not allowed to take in outside income (from sources like speaking fees) that amounts to more than 15 percent of their salary (the base pay for a member of Congress is $174,000).
And like everyone else, members of Congress are subject to current insider trading laws. However, current insider trading laws do not apply to nonpublic information about current or upcoming congressional activity -- that's because members of Congress aren't technically obligated to keep that information confidential.
Congressmen can get away with "the type of insider trading that would send Martha Stewart to prison," Holman said. "They go into hearings and confidential meetings with business interests, understanding new legislation is going to come out next week," and are free to trade on that information.
So, for instance, if a lawmaker learns an upcoming bill will grant a company a large government contract, which could boost that company's stock, he or she is free to buy that stock ahead of the bill's public introduction.
A report released last month by four universities found that on average, stock portfolios held by House members from 1985 to 2001 beat the market average by approximately 6 percent annually. In 2004, the same group of professors found that the average stock portfolios held by members of the Senate beat the market average by about 10 percent.
Officially, House ethics rules say it would "impractical or unreasonable" to ask members of Congress to divest from industries over which they have jurisdiction, in part because a congressman may have been elected to represent a "common interest" he shares with his constituents. Thus, the rules say, if asked to divest in that industry, the member of Congress may be "ineffective in representing the real interests of the constituents."
House ethics rules dictate that a lawmaker should "never use any information coming to him confidentially in the performance of governmental duties as a means for making a private profit." House rules, however, are only enforced on an internal basis, and breaches of the rules are often lightly punished, if at all.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-is-congress-a-millionaires-club/
- politicise national security? The line as to what constitutes true and fake national security has been increasingly blurred that for outsiders it's almost impossible to figure out what line there is (if any)? This means that you can justify any reason for any possible action. If a head of state suddenly decided fast food access was a national security issue we could go to war for this?

We need a royal commission into university Chinese links urgently. They jumped the shark on foreign, especially Chinese, students. As a result, the universities entire role in our society is now under intense attack.  The universities have:

collaborated on military and surveillance technologies that aid and abet CCP power and persecution;

consistently put dollars ahead of lives during pandemic lobbying;

crashed pedagogical standards for foreign kids;

distorted policy and recruited policymakers in a classic case of regulatory capture, and

persecuted whistleblowers.

These institutions have been all but ruined in terms of their values, reason for being, and licence to operate.

That’s what lies on the other side of Labor’s “voice of leadership”.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/08/revenge-of-the-ccp-nazi-apologists/

China has accused Australia of double standards after intelligence agencies raided the homes of its foreign journalists in June.
The comments follow two Australian journalists fleeing China with help from Australian officials after state police knocked on ABC reporter Bill Birtles' door at midnight to inform him he was involved in a case.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has condemned Australian authorities for saying Beijing was engaging in "hostage diplomacy", while questioning Chinese journalists was normal procedure.
"It fully revealed some Australians' unfounded sense of superiority, hypocrisy and double standards," Mr Zhao said.
Australian intelligence officers reportedly raided, searched and questioned in June four journalists who worked for the Xinhua News Agency, China Media Group and China News Service in Australia.
Mr Zhao said they were probed over the possible violation of foreign interference laws.
Computers, mobile phones, educational tablets and children's electronic toys were seized from the premises.
"The Chinese journalists were threatened, intimidated and not allowed to contact the local Chinese consulate-general," he said.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/hypocrisy-china-blows-up-over-journos/news-story/3650f1e05a11f2612be08ded0f23c373
The treatment of Birtles, Smith and Cheng under the guise of "national security" has also added to fears Beijing had broken a silent contract to at least give the appearance of respecting the freedom of foreign press and was now willing to not only expel people, but also use them as bargaining chips in hostage diplomacy.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/how-chinas-strained-relationship-with-foreign-media-unravelled/ar-BB18QtWq
Nothing to see here, except that the former NSA spy chief Keith Alexander is on the board of directors of Amazon which has CIA contracts and a monopoly on many services on the internet.
https://www.rt.com/usa/500319-nsa-amazon-surveillance-snowden/
The US, on the one hand, claims that People's Daily and other Chinese media are the CPC's 'propaganda machines,' but demands that the 'propaganda machines' do propaganda for the United States, which is illogical, overbearing and unreasonable.
https://www.rt.com/news/500332-peoples-daily-china-pompeo-rebuke/

- use of history and long standing relationships (the Boy's Club theory)?

Inequality: Are the rich cashing in? | Head to Head - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNeGadtnUJo

Has capitalism failed the world? | Head to Head - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOEUd54NN4Q

We need wartime communism - Slavoj Zizek _ SophieCo. Visionaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI2FUVNRlYs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

Phillip & Elizabeth's Story •• 'maybe we would've met.' [The Americans Series 1-6 Tribute]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaTeiBTR_qw

The Americans 6x10 - 'We had a job to do'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWlHYefkQms

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html

latvia russia relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia%E2%80%93Russia_relations

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43626368

https://visegradinsight.eu/latvia-and-russia-a-complicated-relationship18052015/

lithuania russia relations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania%E2%80%93Russia_relations

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/lt-forrel-ru.htm

https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/baltic-states-russian-disquiet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silovik

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=asshole+song

Denis Leary - Asshole (Official Uncensored Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hungary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Moldova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3093626/chinas-world-beating-stock-bull-run-unleashed-economic-recovery

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8532073/China-claims-Australia-lacks-backbone-dependent-US.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-17/charting-the-economy-china-grows-again-rest-of-world-struggles

In a matter of weeks, the Trump administration has imposed sanctions over punitive policies in Hong Kong and China’s western region of Xinjiang. It took new measures to suffocate Chinese innovation by cutting it off from American technology and pushing allies to look elsewhere. On Monday, it challenged China’s claims in the South China Sea, setting the stage for sharper confrontation.

And President Trump said on Tuesday that he had signed into law a bill to punish Chinese officials for the new security law that curbs the rights of Hong Kong residents, along with an executive order ending preferential trade treatment for Hong Kong.

“The power gap is closing, and the ideological gap is widening,” said Rush Doshi, director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Brookings Institution in Washington, adding that China and the United States had entered a downward “ideological spiral” years in the making.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/world/asia/cold-war-china-us.html

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=new+cold+war

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=new+cold

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/13/how-india-china-and-the-united-states-compete-for-/

- fake democracy. Something a lot of people have noticed is that no matter who you vote for things seem very similar? The democratic process offers an "illusion of choice" and it's obvious that attempts at election rigging are really common? Surprisingly low participation rates (for countries where a choice is offered on whether to vote)? ~38-87% (Australia has compulsory voting but only manages 78%). Ironically, those who are least likely to vote are also likely to be among the most marginlised?

Capitol Insurrection Caused by Capitalism Failure & Rapacious Donor Class -- Dr. Richard Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYd2HA-JHGo

A study published a few years ago by two of America’s most respected political scientists, Princeton professor Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page of Northwestern, concluded that the preferences of the average American “have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically nonsignificant impact upon public policy”. Instead, lawmakers respond almost exclusively to the moneyed interests – those with the most lobbying prowess and deepest pockets to bankroll campaigns.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/24/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-corporate-sedition

https://pnhp.org/2014/04/21/gilens-and-page-average-citizens-have-little-impact-on-public-policy/

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html

- never tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? If you can't rig the election rig the parliamentary system?
Most of Britain's Parliament is not elected... Meet THE LORDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgMRiA9dZQs
Fake Fake News Is a Danger to Our Fake Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_OEKByvbdw
The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0OnOpgaAjg
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Ii_qyNng
house of lords vs house of commons balance of power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
https://www.democraticaudit.com/2018/10/02/audit2018-how-undemocratic-is-the-house-of-lords/
Paul Keating famously declared the upper house of the Federal Parliament to be "unrepresentative swill", but when Parliament isn't there, you notice it – which is the situation now in Victoria.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/dan-s-divine-rule-betrays-our-history-20200827-p55pqv
paul keating upper house swill
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-09/is-the-senate-upper-house-still-vital-for-australian-politics/11082730
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sports-rorts-70-of-grants-from-separate-fund-went-to-coalition-seats-greens-say/ar-BB18q3KN
house of lords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2020/08/21/day-nt-election-thousands-indigenous-australians-remain-unenrolled
https://www.itwire.com/mobility/app-store-battle-royale-apple-pulls-fortnite-from-store,-epic-games-sues-over-fees.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
do people believe their vote makes a difference democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/is-america-a-democracy-if-so-why-does-it-deny-millions-the-vote
"I feel like my voice doesn't matter," she said on a recent evening at a park in East Providence, R.I. "People who suck still are in office, so it doesn't make a difference."
Davis might sound contrarian, but she's not. Although these days more Americans say they're enthusiastic about voting in a midterm election than at any point in the last two decades, come Election Day, nonvoters like Davis will still probably be the norm. For every 10 adults eligible to vote, only about four cast a ballot in the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections.
You have to go back to the turn of the 20th century to find a midterm election when a solid majority of people voted (of course, back then, the right to vote was far more limited, so the eligible voting pool was smaller, more male and more white).
Every election cycle there's a lot of attention on who voted and why. But there's another important question: Who is not voting — and what impact does that have?
The wealthy tend to vote more frequently. Nonvoters are more likely to be poor, young, Hispanic or Asian-American. Some research also indicates they're more likely to align with the Democratic Party.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/645223716/on-the-sidelines-of-democracy-exploring-why-so-many-americans-dont-vote
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/621837079/poll-democrats-fired-up-against-trump-in-midterms-but-gop-rallying-around-him
https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/
why are there are only two major parties in democracies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-party_system
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/kerry-obrien-tells-q-a-australias-political-system-is-letting-down-younger-generation-fears-were-going-down-same-path-as-us/ar-BB18yZkv
voter participation rate
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/21/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/
people who don't vote demographic
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2006/10/18/who-votes-who-doesnt-and-why/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/13/us/politics/what-separates-voters-and-nonvoters.html
In the broadest terms, the study found the average chronic nonvoter is a married, nonreligious white woman between 56 and 73 who works full time but makes less than $50,000 a year. She is most likely to identify as a moderate, lean toward the Democratic Party, get her news from television and to have a very unfavorable impression of both political parties and President Donald Trump. She has a 77 percent chance of being registered to vote and says she doesn't because she doesn't like the candidates but claims to be certain she will vote in November. But the study's real lesson is that averages are deceiving, concealing more than they reveal.
Nonvoters are an eclectic faction with distinctive blocs that support Democrats and Republicans—but don't show up to cast their ballots—and an even larger group that is alienated from a political system it finds bewildering, corrupt, irrelevant or some combination thereof. These blocs are so large that when a campaign is able to motivate even a portion of one, it can swing an election, which may have been what allowed Trump to bust through the "blue wall" in the Great Lakes region in 2016 and Barack Obama to flip North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Indiana in 2008. What these blocs do in November could well decide the 2020 presidential election.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/19/knight-nonvoter-study-decoding-2020-election-wild-card-115796
1. Reasons people don't vote: lack of interest
2. Reasons people don't vote: lack of knowledge
3. Reasons people don't vote: disillusionment
4. Reasons people don't vote: safe seat residents
5. Reasons people don't vote: they can't
https://www.raconteur.net/current-affairs/why-people-dont-vote
- have people perform ceremonies that pay homage to their supposed "superiors" or create systems so that people know their place within society?
Kowtow, which is borrowed from kau tau in Cantonese Chinese (koutou in Mandarin), is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground. In East Asian culture, the kowtow is the highest sign of reverence. It was widely used to show reverence for one's elders, superiors, and especially the Emperor, as well as for religious and cultural objects of worship. In modern times, usage of the kowtow has been reduced.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowtow
A curtsy (also spelled curtsey or incorrectly as courtsey) is a traditional gesture of greeting, in which a girl or woman bends her knees while bowing her head. It is the female equivalent of male bowing or genuflecting in Western cultures. Miss Manners characterizes its knee bend as deriving from a "traditional gesture of an inferior to a superior."[1] The word "curtsy" is a phonological change from "courtesy" known in linguistics as syncope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtsy
Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many European countries. It is also used in religious contexts, as a form of worship or veneration. Sometimes the gesture may be limited to lowering the head such as in Indonesia, and in many cultures several degrees of the lowness of the bow are distinguished and regarded as appropriate for different circumstances. It is especially prominent in Nepal, India, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam where it may be executed standing or kneeling. Some bows are performed equally by two or more people while others are unequal – the person bowed to either does not bow in return or performs a less low bow in response. A nod of the head may be regarded as the minimal form of bow; forms of kneeling, genuflection, or prostration which involves the hands or whole body touching the ground, are the next levels of gesture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowing
A salute is a gesture or other action used to display respect. Salutes are primarily associated with armed forces and law enforcement, but other organizations and civilians also use salutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute
- fake meritocracy. This is all encompassing. Education systems is based on more indoctrination rather then education, rapid promotion of subservient/minion type people means that they are less likely or capable of changing the system, nepotism, corruption, etc... What's interesting is how the top have dealt with the the internal knowledge that it is a fake meritocracy. It's obvious that spying is rampant and that is part of the reason why some countries spend so much on their military industrial security complex? The reason why many of the elite seem to make so many factual, logical, and other areas is because it's not a genuine meritocracy? Heaps of stolen science and technology and people who probably who didn't warrant being spied on (Tesla, Einstein, Chomsky, etc...)? It's really obvious that it's not a real meritocracy anywhere? Most people don't earn what they have? I didn't realise how the Great Powers rose until recently (slavery, colonialism, genocide, etc...)? Everything looks strange due to for that reason? Asian cultures consistently score higher on most intelligence tests but in most US/Western countries white people fill out the top?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1611786819731/dateline-why-singapore-is-top-of-the-class
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/892283971737/dateline-indias-beautiful-minds
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/07/diego-luna-amazon-prime-pan-y-circo-interview
Should TikTok be banned _ Start Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKBl0vqsBWg
Why does Trump want to ban Tiktok _ Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVuJprl8_O0
AskProfWolff - Mergers & Monopolies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZX9Lfhidd0

top sat scores demographic
https://www.fairtest.org/2019-sat-scores-gaps-between-demographic-groups-gr
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/27/scores-new-sat-show-large-gaps-race-and-ethnicity
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/10/29/sat-scores-are-gaps-remain-significant-among-racial-and-ethnic-groups
https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/
corporate executives demographic
Seventy-three percent of the senior executives, men and women, are white. The rest are 21% Asian, 3% Latino/a, 2% black, 0.6% two or more races, 0.2% Native American and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
https://fortune.com/2017/06/09/white-men-senior-executives-fortune-500-companies-diversity-data/
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/management/male-and-pale-the-face-of-australia-s-top-chief-executives-20190524-p51qw9
iq by country
https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/average-iq-by-country/
https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/01/11/ranked-the-25-smartest-countries-in-the-world/#435cab6b163f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence
https://new-iq-test.com/iq-by-country/
https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence
productivity by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_hour_worked
https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/02/05/where-labor-productivity-is-highest-infographic/#492f18a2ea44
https://collectivehub.com/2018/02/15-of-the-worlds-most-productive-countries/
https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-hour-pennworldtable
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/productivity
employment hours worked weekly by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time
https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=AVE_HRS
https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
how many companies are profitable
https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-companies-are-actually-profitable
Finviz is a great way to filter stocks. It's free. It's like Bloomberg-lite for the non-investment bankers. It shows all the stocks traded in the US (including foreign ADRs like HMC, PHG etc). Here is an exercise (as of 03/04/2018):
1) How many stocks are traded in the US (NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ)? 7159
2) Of those 7,000+ stocks, how many are profitable? 2,766.  Let's agree that is pretty shocking that only 38% of publicly-traded companies make money.
3) Of those 2,700 companies , how many have a market cap >$2 billion: 1,402
4) Of those 1,400+ profitable companies with market cap > $2B, how many have forecasted positive EPS growth: 1,279
5) Of those 1,200, how many have a dividend yield over 2%? 472
6) Of those 470+, how many are trading above 200 day moving average? 195
7) Of those 195, how many have positive insider transactions? 14
So, there are only 14 companies out of 7,100 (0.2%) which meet these criteria.
Positive net profit margin (only 38% of companies are profitable)
Larger than $2Billion market cap (which is nothing, really)
Positive EPS growth outlook (gotta be growing)
Dividend yield over 2% (stable enough for them to give back earnings)
Trading above their 200 days moving average (stock has momentum)
Positive insider transactions (insiders are buying)
Of these, a few things come to mind:
Five of these fourteen are small regional banks – probably prime targets for acquisition
KKR – famed and fabled private equity firm – know how to make money in good and bad markets. They are trading at a P/E of 10.  Is this a buy?
LVS – this is one of the large casino holding companies. Perhaps one of the companies that could buy some of the troubled assets of WYNN
Let me know if you had any experiences working with Finviz.
https://www.consultantsmind.com/2018/03/04/choosing-stocks/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_corporate_profits_and_losses
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/average-time-reach-profitability-start-up-company-2318.html
https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/business/famous-companies-arent-profitable/
"The total wealth of the Oligarchic Dozen is greater than the GDP of Belgium and Austria combined," said Omar Ocampo, a researcher for IPS's program on inequality and the common good. "Meanwhile, tens of millions of Americans are unemployed or living paycheck to paycheck, and 170,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States."
The Oligarchic Dozen, like everybody else, got off to a rough start this year, with the group's collective wealth dropping by almost $100 billion from January 1 to March 18. It didn't take long for their net worth to rebound and surpass their September 2019 levels, except for Warren Buffett BRK.A, -0.83% , who is still a couple billion short of his year-ago figure.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-and-the-rest-of-the-oligarchic-dozen-just-reached-a-disturbing-milestone-2020-08-18?mod=chuck-jaffe
scientists in religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_and_technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_in_medieval_Islamic_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists_in_science_and_technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science
list buddhist scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddhists
list hindu scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_discoveries
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/the-tesla-files
einstein intelligence files
This was not so crazy, said Dr. Richard Gid Powers, a historian at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of ''Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover.'' The bureau had no choice but to watch Einstein, Dr. Powers argues, especially after the war, when officials worried that they were losing a ''high-stakes game of propaganda'' to the Soviets as luminaries like Einstein, Picasso and Charlie Chaplin criticized American policy.
''These people were way too smart to argue with,'' Dr. Powers said. ''The only thing to do was to keep an eye on them.''
A look at Einstein's file, available at foia.fbi.gov/einstein.htm, shows more about public -- and bureau -- attitudes toward scientific genius than toward the genius himself. No feat seemed beyond such a man, according to the file. Through a spokesman, the F.B.I. declined to comment specifically on the file, saying it was up to the public to evaluate the material. Mike Kortan of the bureau said that under the Freedom of Information Act the agency was required to release information from ''an earlier era in our history when different concerns drove the government, news media and public sentiment.''
The file sheds some light on Einstein's involvement, or noninvolvement, with the atomic bomb. Overcoming his pacifist scruples, Einstein wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that such a weapon was possible and that Germany might be working on it. The letter helped set the stage for the Manhattan Project, yet Einstein never worked on the bomb effort.
Even without left-wing associations, some scholars and historians suggest, Einstein's independent ways would have made him a risky choice to the military, which worried about keeping the project scientists under control.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/new-details-emerge-einstein-files-fbi-tracked-his-phone-calls-his-trash.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/einstein
https://vault.fbi.gov/Albert%20Einstein
ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS already a world-famous physicist when the FBI started keeping a secret dossier on him in December 1932. He and his wife Elsa had just moved to the United States from their native Germany, and Einstein had been very vocal about the social issues of his time, arguing publicly against racism and nationalism.
By the time of Einstein's death on April 18, 1955, that FBI file would be 1,427 pages long. Agency director J. Edgar Hoover was deeply suspicious of Einstein's activism; the man was quite possibly a communist, according to Hoover, and was certainly "an extreme radical."
Einstein himself probably would have laughed out loud at those labels if he'd known about them; he'd heard far worse from the Nazis back home. And he was not at all intimidated by officialdom. "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth," he declared in 1901.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/science-march-einstein-fbi-genius-science/
chomsky intelligence files
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/08/13/exclusive-after-multiple-denials-cia-admits-to-snooping-on-noam-chomsky/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/27/the-cia-has-nothing-on-noam-chomsky-no-really/
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/14/cia-kept-file-noam-chomsky
https://www.reddit.com/r/chomsky/comments/1z75nk/xpost_from_rintelligence_confirmed_the_cia/
https://en.tempo.co/read/504582/cia-spying-on-anti-war-activist-professor-noam-chomsky
scientists who were spied on
https://theintercept.com/2020/02/02/fbi-chinese-scientists-surveillance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/10/the-science-of-spying-how-the-cia-secretly-recruits-academics
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3049188/scientist-and-spy-chinese-industrial-espionage-and
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=neuralink
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-neuralink-musk/three-little-pigs-musks-neuralink-puts-computer-chips-in-animal-brains-idUSKBN25O2EG
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/the-signal/mental-health-emergencies/12587680
guinea pigs
And now to that burning question: why is it that with a name that has easy brand recognition (Google) and the might of a huge company behind it, the Pixel has failed to make any kind of impression on the overall smartphone market? One reason could be that it is not sold in the biggest smartphone market on the globe – China. Google pulled out of the country in 2010 after it claimed its servers had been broken into by Beijing.
https://www.itwire.com/mobile-devices/review-will-pixel-4a-prove-to-be-chocolate-factory-s-salvation.html
Tesla Technology Has Been Revived

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATzLkr9JXk
viziv wireless technology
https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/whats-really-going-on-at-tesla-tower.htm
united states black science budget
The black budget is an account expenses and spending related to military research and covert operations. The black budget is mostly classified due to security reasons. The black budget can be complicated to calculate, but in the United States it has been estimated to be over US$50 billion a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_budget
hidden science history

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minion

Despicable Me 3 - Minions Funny Moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_-dgO63ORs

Despicable Me 3 2017 - Minion Idol Stage Song Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4rQKpcQ60

Minions (2015) - Bob, Stuart, Kevin Best Moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQzqHm3DqM

Minions Banana Song Full Song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9EHdp1ynUU

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minion+gru

Despicable Me 3 2017 - Minion Idol Stage Song Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ4rQKpcQ60

- ensure that people don't realise that they are being baited into a rigged game? Just as the military just baits people, as casino baits people, as governments bait citizens, as bad employers bait employees, etc... Without disposable income/savings how can people achieve social mobility? Without a genuine choice by employees in employers what incentive is there for employers to act in the interests of their employees? Without a genuine chance/choice in life what chance do many people who enter military service have of a normal life?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-social-and-economic-systems-music.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/TRUTHstreammedia/videos
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/892283971737/dateline-indias-beautiful-minds
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/956403779729/dateline-indias-slumdog-press
AskProfWolff - What Exactly is 'Capital' in Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt66WKrfyHQ
Economic Update - The FED's Rigged Money Management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvTlmJUOEuw
merger and acquisition statistics
The value of global mergers and acquisitions deals reached 3.9 trillion U.S. dollars in 2018. In 2018, the United States proved to be the largest M&A market worldwide, with merger and acquisition deals amounting to approximately 1.6 trillion U.S. dollars.
https://www.statista.com/topics/1146/mergers-and-acquisitions/
Last year set a record for mergers and acquisitions, with more than 50,000 deals valued at more than $3.5 trillion, according to Thomson Reuters. I wonder how many of them will succeed? According to Harvard Business Review, between 70 and 90 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail. The reasons for this failure rate are complex, and no two deals are the same. A lack of shareholder value, inability to leverage each other's strengths, technology integration problems – there is a host of things that can go wrong.
https://chiefexecutive.net/increasing-odds-success-merger/
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.
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/04/24/1524542401000/A-complex-analysis-reaches-same-conclusion-as-simple-one--hedge-funds-suck/
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/60-days-in
homeless criminal correlation
Homeless people : their risk of victimisation
https://aic.gov.au/publications/crm/crm066
https://theconversation.com/carelessly-linking-crime-to-being-homeless-adds-to-the-harmful-stigma-117834
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/violent-cycles-homelessness-and-crime/
status quo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(Jerusalem_and_Bethlehem)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/26/wild-hing-makes-indias-heart-sing-as-favourite-spice-is-home-grown-at-last
https://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143251451/the-crackling-spices-of-indian-tempering
Almost 300,000 Bangladeshis are directly involved in catching hilsa and two million more are involved in the more lucrative business of transporting and selling the fish to consumers.
The fishermen, however, get little reward from their catch because they are forced to sell at low prices dictated by local wholesalers as a condition of the loans they provide to the fishermen.
"As you take money from me, you have to sell the fish at low price – these are the conditions between the wholesalers and the fishers," said Atiqur Rahman, a researcher for fishery NGO World Fish.
He said banks usually do not loan to fishermen, forcing them to rely on local businessmen or wholesalers who easily grant loans, but at high interest rates and with stringent conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/26/we-do-not-get-a-chance-at-happiness-the-bangladeshi-fishermen-caught-by-debt
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/26/australias-leaders-dont-even-try-to-understand-the-working-poor
prison and homelessness correlation
Social researchers and policymakers have long been aware of a strong association between incarceration and homelessness. Local and international studies consistently report the homeless are over-represented in prison and ex-prisoners are over-represented among the homeless.
https://theconversation.com/ex-prisoners-are-more-likely-to-become-homeless-but-the-reverse-isnt-true-113570
Jail Incarceration, Homelessness, and Mental Health: A National Study
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ps.2008.59.2.170
LOS ANGELES -- Serious crimes involving at least one homeless person rose 52 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a new report from the Los Angeles Police Department, while crime decreased two percent citywide.
In 2017, there were 4,400 Part 1 crimes where a homeless person was either a suspect or a victim. Just one year later, the number skyrocketed to 6,671 Part 1 crimes involving the homeless, the report said.
Here are the crimes with a homeless suspect that had the biggest increase:
Rape (78 percent increase)
Robbery (64 percent increase)
Aggravated assault (56 percent increase)
Here are the top crimes where a homeless person was victimized:
Robbery (up 89 percent)
Larceny (up 86 percent)
Rape (up 71 percent)
The report didn't draw any conclusions as to why crime increased so much in a single year. In December, Los Angeles trained 100 new homeless outreach employees to help those sleeping on the streets get into shelter or housing.
But local business owners who operate near encampments say the city should do more to curb crime inside tent communities like the one on Venice Boulevard underneath the 405 freeway.
"It's not getting better. It's getting worse at a very fast pace," said George Frem, who owns Exclusive Motors. His surveillance cameras recently caught a shooting outside his business at the encampment across the street.
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/news/2019/05/07/crime-among-the-homeless-explodes-in-los-angeles
- if you filter for wealth, acquiescene, and indoctrination the most likely winners are families that pass money from one generation to another? It also helps ensure that people downstream don't want to change things? Obviously, this happens all over the world
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
Chinese classic texts or canonical texts (simplified Chinese: 中国古典典籍; traditional Chinese: 中國古典典籍; pinyin: Zhōngguó gǔdiǎn diǎnjí) refers to the Chinese texts which originated before the imperial unification by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, particularly the "Four Books and Five Classics" of the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves a customary abridgment of the "Thirteen Classics". All of these pre-Qin texts were written in classical Chinese. All three canons are collectively known as the classics (t 經, s 经, jīng, lit. "warp").[1]
Chinese classic texts may more broadly refer to texts written either in vernacular Chinese or in the classical Chinese that was current until the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, in 1912. These can include shi (史, historical works), zi (子, philosophical works belonging to schools of thought other than the Confucian but also including works on agriculture, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, divination, art criticism, and other miscellaneous writings) and ji (集, literary works) as well as jing (Chinese medicine).
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to take the imperial exams to become government officials. Any political discussion was full of references to this background, and one could not be one of the literati (or, in some periods, even a military officer) without having memorized them. Generally, children first memorized the Chinese characters of the "Three Character Classic" and the "Hundred Family Surnames" and then went on to memorize the other classics. The literate elite therefore shared a common culture and set of values.
Scholarship on these texts naturally divides itself into two periods, before and after the burning of the books during the fall of the Qin dynasty, when many of the original pre-Qin texts were lost.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classics
In the show, which was produced by the BBC, a British actress of Asian descent appeared in traditional Chinese costume and ate rats, cockroaches, and jellyfish among other things.
It was part of a section that was explaining the eating culture from China's Tang Dynasty, which ended over 1,000 years ago.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-24/horrible-histories-ancient-chinese-food-bamboo-rat-camel-bear/12910618
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Histories
Chinese classic texts or canonical texts (simplified Chinese: 中国古典典籍; traditional Chinese: 中國古典典籍; pinyin: Zhōngguó gǔdiǎn diǎnjí) refers to the Chinese texts which originated before the imperial unification by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, particularly the "Four Books and Five Classics" of the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves a customary abridgment of the "Thirteen Classics". All of these pre-Qin texts were written in classical Chinese. All three canons are collectively known as the classics (t 經, s 经, jīng, lit. "warp").[1]
Chinese classic texts may more broadly refer to texts written either in vernacular Chinese or in the classical Chinese that was current until the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, in 1912. These can include shi (史, historical works), zi (子, philosophical works belonging to schools of thought other than the Confucian but also including works on agriculture, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, divination, art criticism, and other miscellaneous writings) and ji (集, literary works) as well as jing (Chinese medicine).
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to take the imperial exams to become government officials. Any political discussion was full of references to this background, and one could not be one of the literati (or, in some periods, even a military officer) without having memorized them. Generally, children first memorized the Chinese characters of the "Three Character Classic" and the "Hundred Family Surnames" and then went on to memorize the other classics. The literate elite therefore shared a common culture and set of values.
Scholarship on these texts naturally divides itself into two periods, before and after the burning of the books during the fall of the Qin dynasty, when many of the original pre-Qin texts were lost.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_classics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Books_and_Five_Classics
- lack of accountability, corrupt oversight, etc...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/03/toothless-tiger-five-problems-with-the-coalitions-anti-corruption-commission
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/nsa-no-congress-oversight
- covert/rebadging/coverup operations uncomfortably common? That ensures that even if decisions may prove unpopular the top till get their own way? Ignore or suppress arguments that the elite can't win. If that fails lie to ourselves until the lies become the truth?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
If You Can't Win The Debate - Ban It - The David Icke Dot-Connector Videocast
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4pHISOlHqHU/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/les-miserables-review-ladj-ly-film-police-violence-paris-project/12597216
Around 40.3 million people are enslaved around the world today according to estimates, and it affects everything you touch. From slaves being used to mine cobalt for gadgets or harvesting the coffee you drink, it's an insidious aspect of the globalised world.
"It's very sad when you look at the stats published, 5.4 persons per 1,000 people in the world. And that's more than the days before slavery was 'abolished'," says Chris Laws, head of UK product and strategy at Dun & Bradstreet, global provider of businesses envisioning data and analytics.
Companies like Dun & Bradstreet are using the reams and reams of data they hold on businesses throughout the world to try and tackle the issues of modern slavery and help corporations make better decisions about where they spend their money.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/key-fighting-modern-slavery-data-143308155.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Clinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation
Belarus long time leader claims a landslide victory _ Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvMPOuF6ws
'Last thing US wants in the world is democracy. It wants control'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZnKKMFL6no
Keiser Report _ Summer solutions _ How Trump Stole 2020 _ E1580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUONrRtgfqQ
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Under Investigation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nwRpMqHSWg
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chris+hedges+snowden+debate+oxford+union
Oxford Union Debate - Snowden a Hero (Hedges_Machon_Binney_Huhne v. Vaughan_Toobin_Baker_Crowley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iQZOSpv4A
Economic Update - Europe's New Internationalist Left
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sFlOLpgl8E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis
kissinger maintain hegemony
https://thediplomat.com/2014/09/kissingers-order/
http://home.olemiss.edu/~gg/paperhtm/blncpowr.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/books/in-world-order-henry-kissinger-sums-up-his-philosophy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemonic_stability_theory
"Every single arena and area of American life is dominated by a kind of worshipping of whiteness," he said. "And so this is inescapable."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/why-racist-symbols-persist-in-america
wikileaks united states foreign policy summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_Revolution
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/14/the-revelations-of-wikileaks-no-6-us-diplomatic-cables-spark-arab-spring-expose-spying-at-un-elsewhere/
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2260-the-wikileaks-files
Secret documents made public in summary form Sunday by the New York Times and the Guardian underscore the rising tensions in that region. A classified memo from Secretary of State Clinton in December 2009 complains that Saudi Arabia and the Arab sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf are the principal financiers of anti-American terrorist activity. "Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide," the memo declares.
This assessment is in sharp contrast to the public US focus on Afghanistan and the tribal territories of Pakistan as the base of Al Qaeda terrorism. The real purpose of the war in Afghanistan is to establish a dominant US role in Central Asia, the second largest source of world oil and gas exports.
As the Guardian notes in its coverage (but not the Times), the US complaints about the Saudi role in financing terrorism play second fiddle to US oil interests. The Guardian observed: "The cables show that when it comes to powerful oil-rich allies, US diplomats save their concerns for closed-door talks, in stark contrast to the often pointed criticism meted out to allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Instead, officials at the Riyadh embassy worry about protecting Saudi oilfields from al-Qaida attacks."
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This dispatch underscores one of the driving forces of foreign policy for all the imperialist powers: the financial interests of the giant corporations. The United States is no exception, as demonstrated by two more excerpts from the weekend postings on WikiLeaks:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/wiki-d06.html
https://choice.npr.org/index.html?origin=https://www.npr.org/2019/04/12/712659290/how-much-did-wikileaks-damage-u-s-national-security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23165015-the-wikileaks-files
The World According to US Empire summary
The whole weighty book is a missile aimed at breaking the plate glass of US diplomacy and revealing its motivations. It calculates what Julian Assange in his introduction calls the "true human cost of empire" – even though the US, founded on the rejection of imperialism and the pursuit of liberty, persistently denies that it has an empire. In fact, as Chalmers Johnson, Oliver Stone and other American historians have shown, a gap has always yawned between what the US believes or says and what it does.
For more than a century, while talking up its aspirations for global freedom and human rights, the US has favoured stability over reform and profits over people, repeatedly deposing democratically elected populist leaders and supporting dictators in many countries. These chapters reveal how the terms that present the US favourably – democracy promotion, free trade, the rule of law – are constantly used, while their real meaning is the opposite.
The American empire, as it pursues economic and military power and administrative and diplomatic control in many countries ahead of the well-being of their citizens, is no different from its predecessors. But Assange argues that the US above all wants an empire of markets which it dominates.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/book-review-the-wikileaks-files-the-world-according-to-us-empire-20150908-gjhp1v.html
American imperialism consists of policies aimed at extending the political, economic, and cultural influence of the United States over areas beyond its boundaries. Depending on the commentator, it may include military conquest, gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, subsidization of preferred factions, economic penetration through private companies followed by intervention when those interests are threatened, or regime change.[4][page needed]
The policy of imperialism is usually considered to have begun in the late 19th century.[5] The federal government of the United States has never referred to its territories as an empire, but some commentators refer to it as such, including Max Boot, Arthur Schlesinger, and Niall Ferguson.[6] The United States has also been accused of neocolonialism, sometimes defined as a modern form of hegemony, which uses economic rather than military power, and sometimes used as a synonym for contemporary imperialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1626434627893/experimenter
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/253253187555/a-dangerous-method
Could fighting in northern Mozambique destabilise the region _ Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jV0yvKbYUk
Can France defeat armed groups in the Sahel _ Inside Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlQQu6P21WM
The 3rd Annual REAL Fake News Awards!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TwiB3oNng4
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/ghislaine-maxwell-documents-unsealed-allegations-prince-andrew-bill-clinton-others-fbi-knew-evidence-crimes-years/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotlight/mi6-the-coup-in-iran-that-changed-the-middle-east-and-the-cover-up/ar-BB17t48c
It's not the most original observation you'll read this week, but it's one of the most important: the news lies to you by omission.
Shocked? I thought not. But let's really interrogate what this means.
All of us (presumably) would agree with the observation that "the news is lying to you." But most people hearing that statement immediately interpret it to mean that the news is lying by commission, i.e., deliberately spreading information that they know to be untrue.
While this is certainly true sometimes (and we can all think of examples of the news outright lying about the facts of a case), blatant lies about verifiable facts represent only a tiny fraction of the media's mendacity. Most of the time, the talking heads of the corporate mouthpiece media are not telling fibs, per se; they're just leaving out vital pieces of the story.
Often, this type of lying—lying by omission—is a more effective means of duping the public than telling provably untrue statements about independent reality. When the talking heads of the corporate media leave out the proper context for a story, the audience can be led to incorrect conclusions about the world. And, since these perfidious presstitutes haven't technically said anything that's untrue, they can never be caught in their lie. They maintain a plausible denial that they just didn't know the rest of the story.
In the interest of learning how to really read the news, then, let's look at an example of a news story where the media is hiding key information from the public and see what that news story looks like when we add the relevant context.
https://www.corbettreport.com/how-to-read-the-news/
Citing privacy violations, Twitter has reportedly scrambled to cleanse the site of posts featuring the screenshots.
Responding to the leaked images, the company claimed that it has always been upfront about the fact that tweets and accounts are monitored for "quality" and can be prevented from trending if found to be creating a "bad search experience." However, critics noted that the screenshots suggest that this process can be done manually, opening the door to potential abuse.
The platform has long maintained that it does not 'shadow ban' users – or limit the reach of accounts in lieu of an explicit ban – but the allegedly leaked images have generated a whirlwind of speculation that it does engage in the practice after all. Conservative users in particular were up in arms over the reports, with right-leaning pundit Mike Cernovich accusing the company of editing content "manually" to weed out certain political viewpoints.
https://www.rt.com/news/494880-twitter-blacklist-leaked-images/
children's television cia
The U.S. government has spent $5.4 million during the past two years to finance a children's television show about postal inspectors – and it could spend millions more over the next two years. Currently filming its second season in Charleston, SC, CBS' The Inspectors is the only show on commercial television that's paid for by a governmental agency.
The show, which is part of the network's three-hour block of Saturday morning kids programming, features actors in the roles of fictional crime-fighting postal inspectors. Inspired by real-life cases of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, each episode concludes with a crime-prevention message from the real-life chief inspector of the USPIS, Guy Cottrell.
https://deadline.com/2016/08/the-inspectors-government-spends-millions-to-fund-cbs-kids-show-1201803819/
https://www.cfr.org/blog/cia-wants-your-kids
What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States? Astute TV and movie viewers may have noticed that the CIA's image in popular media has spanned this entire range, with a decided shift to more positive portrayals in recent years. But what very few people know is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been actively engaged in shaping the content of film and television, especially since it established an entertainment industry liaison program in the mid-1990s.
The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries. Tricia Jenkins draws on numerous interviews with the CIA's public affairs staff, operations officers, and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers, and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA's role in Hollywood. In particular, she delves into the Agency's and its officers' involvement in the production of The Agency, In the Company of Spies, Alias, The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, and more. Her research reveals the significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood and raises important and troubling questions about the ethics and legality of a government agency using popular media to manipulate its public image.
https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Hollywood-Agency-Shapes-Television/dp/0292754361
https://www.booktopia.com.au/buy/books-about-cia-black-ops
https://www.rt.com/news/498081-trump-divest-bytedance-tiktok/
Just one in five Australians consider bringing forward already legislated personal income tax cuts as a priority for when Treasurer Josh Frydenberg hands down his budget on October 6.
Instead, a new survey has found a greater number (30 per cent) want to see income support like the JobSeeker dole payment boosted.
The Australian Institute survey of 1017 respondents also found just over a quarter (26 per cent) want the government to spend on infrastructure and government services, like health and education.
A mere 12 per cent thought the budget should be focused on decreasing the deficit.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/tax-cuts-not-a-priority-for-many-survey/ar-BB18YvVV
belief in tax cuts polling
Australian voters say it is more important to maintain funding for services such as health and education than giving workers on high incomes a tax cut, according to the latest Guardian Essential survey.
The latest poll of 1,097 respondents suggests voters remain to be convinced of the merits of stage three of the Morrison government's income tax package if information is presented to them in terms of budgetary trade-offs.
A strong majority, 78%, said maintaining government investments in health and education was more important than legislating a tax cut for workers on incomes of $200,000. Three-quarters of the sample said people earning more than $150,000 should pay a higher rate of tax than workers earning $40,000.
Partisan loyalties influenced perceptions of the tax cuts. Labor and Greens supporters were more likely to agree with a statement prioritising social spending over a tax cut for high-income earners.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/27/voters-back-health-and-education-over-high-income-tax-cuts-poll-shows
Republicans really want to cut the corporate tax rate. It's the centerpiece of every plan they have released, and they've spent weeks floating wildly unpopular ways to pay for it.
There's just one problem: It's really unpopular — even among Republican voters.
Sixty percent of registered voters think corporations pay "too little" in taxes, according to a September poll from Morning Consult and Politico, surveying a little under 2,000 Americans. A more recent Morning Consult and Politico survey from October found only 39 percent of Americans think it should be part of the tax plan — with 59 percent of Republican voters supporting it. Another poll from Pew Research Center showed that 53 percent of Republicans think corporate tax rates should either be raised or stay the same.
But confronted with these numbers, House and Senate Republicans seemed unfazed.
"Who cares?" Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) said before I had a chance to say what the polls showed.
Others said they didn't believe the numbers.
"I don't believe that poll," Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) said. "I don't believe it. It's in all of our best interest to have these tax cuts for corporations..."
Lowering the corporate tax from its current 35 percent to 20 percent, as Republicans are proposing to boost economic growth, is costly — the Tax Policy Center estimates it would cost the country $2 trillion over the next 10 years. But it also has potential to be politically expensive.
James Wallner, a fellow at the conservative R Street Institute think tank and former executive director of the Senate Steering Committee, tweeted that it "isn't ideal" for the GOP that only 59 percent of Republicans support cutting the corporate tax rate — the proposal's popularity will likely drop more as more details emerge about the various ways Republicans plan to pay for cutting the corporate rate, Wallner pointed out.
"Those aren't polls of my constituents," said Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), who sits on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
If there is a political cost to this proposal, one thing is clear: Republicans either don't believe it's true or they just don't care.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16593620/republicans-unfazed-corporate-tax-cut-polls
https://www.smh.com.au/money/tax/voters-doubtful-about-coalition-s-big-business-tax-cuts-poll-20180203-p4yzcl.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/business/economy/tax-survey.html
- bribery, lies, poor regulation, and corruption accusations surround pretty much most major events and important bodies? Obviously, this works out well for wealthier countries but not for poorer countries? Most of the time problems are merely being hidden and not fixed?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bribes+wikileaks
Wikileaks FBI Agent Turkey Bribes Congress To Deny Armenian Genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nt-GmrEEvs
Indonesia denies alleged WikiLeaks claims of graft by President Yudhoyono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwEFlgHuT9s
DNC Leak EXPOSES Hillary Victory Fund Bribery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76x_NfDlBo
bribery olympic bidding
The 2002 Olympic Winter Games bid scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery used to win the rights to host the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Prior to its successful bid in 1995, the city had attempted four times to secure the games, failing each time. In 1998, members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were accused of taking gifts from the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) during the bidding process. The allegations resulted in the expulsion of several IOC members, and the adoption of new IOC rules. Although nothing strictly illegal had been done, it was felt that the acceptance of the gifts was morally dubious. Soon four independent investigations were underway: by the IOC, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), the SLOC, and the United States Department of Justice. Both Tom Welch and David Johnson resigned their posts as the head of the SLOC. Many others soon followed. The Department of Justice filed fifteen charges of bribery and fraud.[1] Investigations were also launched into prior bidding process by other cities, finding that members of the IOC received gifts during the bidding process for both the 1998 Winter Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_bid_scandal
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/05/ioc-investigates-allegations-of-bribery-over-rios-2016-olympic-bid
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/tokyo-olympics-bribery-scandal/
https://www.britannica.com/sports/Olympic-Games/Corruption
fifa world cup bribery
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/sports/soccer/qatar-and-russia-bribery-world-cup-fifa.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_controversies
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/09/football/fifa-bribery-accusations-qatar-russia-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html
The Super Hercules has been used extensively by the USAF and USMC in Iraq and Afghanistan. Canada has also deployed its CC-130J aircraft to Afghanistan.
C-130Js from several countries have been deployed in support of the US Operation Odyssey Dawn and NATO's Operation Unified Protector during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
From the first flight on 5 April 1996 to 30 April 2013, 290 C-130J Super Hercules aircraft operated by 13 nations surpassed 1 million flight hours.[14][15]
In January 2013, it was reported that some of Canada's CC-130J transports had counterfeit Chinese microchips in their cockpit displays. These parts are more likely to fail and result in failures such as blank instrument screens during flight. A 14-month investigation by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee concluded that counterfeit parts in the Hercules and other American-made military equipment are prone to failure with potentially "catastrophic consequences." The U.S. congressional investigation reported the fake Hercules microchips were originally made by the Korean electronics giant Samsung in the 1990s, and more than a decade later, had been recycled, refurbished and remarked to appear genuine by a company in China.[16] Samsung later stated that "it is not possible to project the reliability" of the altered parts. The U.S. investigation reported that the problems on the Hercules first came to light in 2010 when the instrument panel failed on a USAF aircraft during active duty.[17]
On 20 August 2013, the Indian Air Force performed the highest landing of a C-130J at the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip in Ladakh at the height of 16,614 ft (5,064 m).[18][19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_C-130J_Super_Hercules
https://www.cnbctv18.com/politics/from-migs-to-rafale-the-history-and-politics-behind-indias-fighter-jet-purchases-6797791.htm
Many people who consider themselves 'anti-war' aren't actually comfortable with the idea of the US losing its position of unipolar domination over global affairs and taking a chance on a world without American imperialism.
Just in the last few days Israel has reportedly dropped cluster munitions and white phosphorus on southern Lebanon, bombed Gaza, and fired missiles on Damascus, because Israel is a nation whose existence depends on unceasing military violence.
In order for Israel to continue existing as the imperialist apartheid state that it is, it needs to wage war in all directions at all times, both against its neighbors and against the increasingly brutalized Palestinian population. If the bombings end, so too does Israel as we know it, because the regional population will never stand for its oppression, tyranny, and multiple illegal occupations.
Peace and Israel are therefore two mutually exclusive concepts. You can have peace or you can have today's Israel; you can't have both.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499625-caitlin-johnstone-war-empire-peace/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=accounting+scandals
Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arthur Andersen
list audit scandals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=accounting+scandal
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mckinsey+scandal
Lobbying
Glencore engages political lobbyists in various jurisdictions where it has interests. In South Australia, the company is represented by Capital Hill Advisory.[98]
On 6 March 2019, it was revealed by The Guardian Australia that Glencore, aided by consulting firm CT Group, had engaged in a large-scale, globally coordinated lobbying campaign to promote coal use "by undermining environmental activists, influencing politicians and spreading sophisticated pro-coal messaging on social media."[99] The campaign was started in 2017 and ran until 2019, when it was shut down in February, according to Glencore.[99]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family
The political activities of the Koch brothers include the financial and political influence of Charles G. and David H. Koch (1940–2019) on United States politics. This influence is seen both directly and indirectly via various political and public policy organizations that were supported by the Koch brothers.[1][2][3][4]
The Koch brothers are the sons of Fred C. Koch (1900–1967), who founded Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States, of which they own 84% of the stock.[5] Having bought out two other brothers' interests, they remain in control of the family business, the fortune which they inherited from their father, and the Koch family foundations.
The brothers have made significant financial contributions to libertarian and conservative think tanks and have donated primarily to Republican Party candidates running for office."[6] A network of like-minded donors organized by the Kochs pledged to spend $889 million from 2009–2016 and its infrastructure has been said by Politico to rival "that of the Republican National Committee."[7] They actively fund and support organizations that contribute significantly to Republican candidates, and in particular that lobby against efforts to expand government's role in health care and climate change mitigation,[8] or promote climate change skepticism.[9] By 2010, they had donated more than $100 million to dozens of free-market and advocacy organizations.[8]
In May 2019, the Kochs announced a major restructuring of their philanthropic efforts, stating that the Koch network will henceforth operate under the umbrella of Stand Together, a nonprofit focused on supporting community groups. The stated priorities of the restructured Koch network include efforts aimed at increasing employment, addressing poverty and addiction, ensuring excellent education, building a stronger economy, and bridging divides and building respect.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers
cyprus papers
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/explainer-cyprus-papers-200821084825891.html
Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit publishes a leak of documents that reveal 2500 people, including convicted criminals, paid to become citizens of Cyprus.
https://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/cypruspapers/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=false+confessions
bribes per country statistics
BPI 2011 rankings
Rank Country/Territory Average score[2]
1 Japan 8.9
2 Netherlands 8.8
2 Switzerland 8.8
4 Belgium 8.7
5 Germany 8.6
6 Australia 8.5
6 Canada 8.5
8 Singapore 8.3
8 United Kingdom 8.3
10 United States 8.1
11 France 8.0
11 Spain 8.0
13 South Korea 7.9
14 Brazil 7.7
15 Hong Kong 7.6
15 Italy 7.6
15 Malaysia 7.6
15 South Africa 7.6
19 Taiwan 7.5
19 India 7.5
19 Turkey 7.5
22 Saudi Arabia 7.4
23 Argentina 7.3
23 United Arab Emirates 7.3
25 Indonesia 7.1
26 Mexico 7.0
27 China 6.5
28 Russia 6.1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribe_Payers_Index
Bribery incidence (% of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request)
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.FRM.BRIB.ZS
Map: Which country pays the most bribes?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-23231318
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/statistics/corruption.html
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi
https://ourworldindata.org/corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
war criminal politicians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_state_and_local_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/equatorial-guinea-government-prime-minister-resign-200815150820278.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Equatorial_Guinea
Equatorial Guinea country profile
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13317174
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed
corrupt world leaders
Contemporary studies have identified 21st century kleptocracy as a global financial system based on money laundering (which the International Monetary Fund has estimated comprises p2-5 percent of the global economy).[5][6][7] Kleptocrats engage in money laundering to obscure the corrupt origins of their wealth and safeguard it from domestic threats such as economic instability and predatory kleptocratic rivals. They are then able to secure this wealth in assets and investments within more stable jurisdictions, where it can then be stored for personal use, returned to the country of origin to support the kleptocrat's domestic activities, or deployed elsewhere to protect and project the regime's interests overseas.[8]
Illicit funds are typically transferred out of a kleptocracy into Western jurisdictions for money laundering and asset security. Since 2011, more than $1 trillion has left developing countries annually in illicit financial outflows. A 2016 study found that $12 trillion had been siphoned out of Russia, China, and developing economies.[9] Western professional services providers are an essential part of the kleptocratic financial system, exploiting legal and financial loopholes in their own jurisdictions to facilitate transnational money laundering.[10][11] The kleptocratic financial system typically comprises four steps.[12]
First, kleptocrats or those operating on their behalf create anonymous shell companies to conceal the origins and ownership of the funds. Multiple interlocking networks of anonymous shell companies may be created and nominee directors appointed to further conceal the kleptocrat as the ultimate beneficial owner of the funds.[13]
Second, a kleptocrat's funds are transferred into the Western financial system via accounts which are subject to weak or nonexistent anti-money laundering procedures.
Third, financial transactions conducted by the kleptocrat in a Western country complete the integration of the funds. Once a kleptocrat has purchased an asset this can then be resold, providing a legally defensible origin of the funds. Research has shown the purchase of luxury real estate to be a particularly favored method.[14][15]
Fourth, kleptocrats may use their laundered funds to engage in reputation laundering, hiring public relations firms to present a positive public image and lawyers to suppress journalistic scrutiny of their political connections and origins of their wealth.[16][17]
The United States is international kleptocrats' favoured jurisdiction for laundering money. In a 2011 forensic study of grand corruption cases, the World Bank found the United States was the leading jurisdiction of incorporation for entities involved in money laundering schemes.[18] The Department of Treasury estimates that $300 billion is laundered annually in the United States.[19]
This kleptocratic financial system flourishes in the United States for three reasons.
First, the absence of a beneficial ownership registry means that it is the easiest country in the world in which to conceal the ownership of a company. The United States produces more than 2 million corporate entities a year, and 10 times more shell companies than 41 other countries identified as tax havens combined.[18] It currently takes more information to obtain a library card than to form a US company.[20]
Second, some of the professions most at risk of being exploited for money laundering by kleptocrats are not required to perform due diligence on prospective customers, including incorporation agents, lawyers, and realtors.[21] A 2012 undercover study found that just 10 of 1,722 U.S. incorporation agents refused to create an anonymous company for a suspicious customer; a 2016 investigation found that just one of 13 prominent New York law firms refused to provide advice for a suspicious customer.[22]
Third, such anonymous companies can then freely engage in transactions without having to reveal their beneficial owner.[citation needed]
The vast majority of foreign transactions take place in US dollars. Trillions of US dollars are traded on the foreign exchange market daily making even large sums of laundered money a mere drop in the bucket.[citation needed]
Currently[when?], there are only around 1,200 money laundering convictions per year in the United States and money launderers face a less than five percent chance of conviction.[21] Raymond Baker estimates that law enforcement fails in 99.9% of cases to detect money laundering by kleptocrats and other financial criminals.[23]
Other Western jurisdictions favoured by kleptocrats include South Africa, the United Kingdom, and its dependencies, especially the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, and Jersey.[24][25] Jurisdictions in the European Union which are particularly favoured by kleptocrats include Cyprus, the Netherlands, and its dependency the Dutch Antilles.[26][27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
monsanto lobbying
EMAILS SHOW MONSANTO ORCHESTRATED GOP EFFORT TO INTIMIDATE CANCER RESEARCHERS
Documents suggest the firm has antagonized regulators and applied pressure to shape research of the world's leading herbicide.
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/23/monsanto-republicans-cancer-research/
Monsanto has been roundly attacked for "buying" the U.S. government by spending millions on lobbying efforts, getting former executives into positions of power in government administrations, and vigorously enforcing its intellectual property patent rights.
Monsanto does indeed spend millions on lobbying—around $5 million a year. In 2016, Monsanto was the top lobbyist spender in the agricultural services/products group with $4.6 million. Dow Chemical paid much less at only $200,000.5 Likewise, it is true that several former Monsanto executives have found their way into presidential administrations.6
Similar concerns have arisen around lobbying efforts for specific GMO legislation. Monsanto was frequently singled out as a major donor and supporter of efforts to defeat California's GM labeling law. Monsanto was, in fact, the largest donor to this initiative at $8.1 million, while DuPont was second at $5.4 million. Other GMO crop companies (Dow and BASF) chipped in between $2 million, while food companies like PepsiCo (PEP), Nestle (NSRGY), and Coca-Cola (KO) all contributed over $1 million each.7
While Monsanto obviously was not alone in undermining legislation that would significantly increase the labeling and transparency of genetically engineered foods it is just yet another example of the commitment it has to minimize legalities and transparencies around drug and chemical disclosures. In many cases, Monsanto's lobbying efforts seek to deny consumers awareness and the right to receive full transparency.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/061913/why-monsanto-evil-dupont-isnt.asp
Controversy
The Lagarde list
Main article: Lagarde list
In 2010 Lagarde, then finance minister of France, sent a list of 1,991 names of Greek customers who were potential tax avoiders with bank accounts at HSBC's Geneva branch to the Greek government.[74]
On 28 October 2012, Greek reporter and editor Kostas Vaxevanis claimed to be in possession of the list and published a document with more than 2,000 names in his magazine Hot Doc.[75][76] He was immediately arrested on charges of breaching privacy laws with a possible sentence of up to two years in prison.[77] After a public outcry, Vaxevanis was found not guilty three days later.[78] Vaxevanis then faced a retrial (the Greek authorities were yet to charge anyone on the list),[79] but was acquitted again. A few days before the Greek general elections of January 2015, when it was clear that left-wing Syriza would come to power, the financial crimes police of the conservative government of Antonis Samaras shredded reams of documents pertaining to corruption cases.[80]
Investigation into negligence
On 3 August 2011, a French court ordered an investigation into Lagarde's role in a €403 million arbitration deal in favour of businessman Bernard Tapie.[81] On 20 March 2013, Lagarde's apartment in Paris was raided by French police as part of the investigation.[82] On 24 May 2013, after two days of questioning at the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), Lagarde was assigned the status of "assisted witness", meaning that she herself was not under investigation in the affair.[83] According to a press report from June 2013, Lagarde was described by Stéphane Richard, the CEO of France Telecom (a former aide to Lagarde when she was finance minister), who was himself put under formal investigation in the case, as having been fully briefed before approving the arbitration process which benefitted Bernard Tapie.[84][85] Subsequently, in August 2014 the CJR announced that it had formally approved a negligence investigation into Lagarde's role in the arbitration of the Tapie case.[86] On 17 December 2015, the CJR ordered Lagarde to stand trial before it for alleged negligence in handling the Tapie arbitration approval.[87][88][89] In December 2016, the court found Lagarde guilty of negligence, but declined to impose a penalty.[90]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Lagarde#Controversy
bribes by industry
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Corruption is rampant in industries like construction, extraction, and finance.
The bidding process for projects in the extraction and construction industries is known to be an area of fraudulent activity.
In the transportation industry, people trying to move goods are often involved in organized crime and corruption is at the enforcement level.
In 2018, Goldman Sachs bankers were caught up in a scandal that included the alleged pilfering of a multi-billion-dollar fund called 1MDB.3
Corruption is like many things in life because it happens pretty much anywhere that conditions are ripe.
corruption by industry list
The OECD analyzed 427 cases of bribery in international business.
Two-thirds of the cases occurred in just four industries: extractive (19%); construction (15%); transportation and storage (15%); and information and communication (10%).
Senior executives were involved in more than half the cases, with chief executives playing an active role in 12%. They either paid the bribes themselves, or authorized them, the OECD found.
Public sector employees and those working for state-owned companies were most likely to be the target of corruption. They were promised, offered or given bribes in 80% of the cases.
These included top politicians, such as government ministers, and presidents of state companies. Officials working in customs, health and defense were also likely to be on the receiving end.
Not surprisingly, the higher-ranking the official, the bigger the bribe. While heads of states and ministers were bribed in only 5% of the cases, they received 11% of total bribes.
Customs officials on the other hand, were targeted in 11% of cases, but pocketed little more than 1% of the bribes.
All of the cases looked at by the OECD have been prosecuted and reached a final judgment.
Nearly a third were brought to the attention of the authorities by companies that often uncovered bribes during internal audits or when combing through accounts before a merger or acquisition.
Whistleblowers, on the other hand, were involved in only 2% of the cases.
https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/02/news/bribery-foreign-corruption/index.html
https://www.thecoolist.com/most-corrupt-industries/
For general counsel and compliance officers, Wrage said the most important takeaway from the report is that reducing corruption "is a long-term effort to which the international community has remained largely committed in spite of global political turmoil. Aligning corporate values and actions to this anti-corruption agenda will help reinforce our collective stand in support of the rule of law in transnational affairs."
In other findings, the report shows:
As of the end of 2019, Brazil was conducting the most investigations concerning alleged bribery of domestic officials by foreign companies, followed by India and China.
China has had the highest prevalence of alleged bribery by foreign companies with 110 enforcement events since 1977.
In total, there were 328 investigations concerning alleged bribery of foreign officials being conducted by authorities in 37 countries as of Dec. 31
Europe was conducting 165 of the probes, or more than half. The U.S. was conducting about 37%, and the Asia Pacific region about 8%.
Of companies based in the U.S. that were caught paying bribes, 34% of the payments went to Asian Pacific officials, 22% to the Americas, excluding the U.S., and 19% to Europe.
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2020/03/18/see-what-industry-ranks-as-most-globally-corrupt/
https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2019/12/which-industries-are-the-most-vulnerable-to-corruption/
politics broken promise statistics
Both political parties and researchers, however, must confront questions about the importance of pledges enacted by parties. A recently completed study of pledges from the 2017 Conservative manifesto shows that the promises considered more important by voters were less likely to be kept. For example a pledge to make maps of school buildings available to parents was kept, while the commitment to reduce net migration to below 100,000 was again broken. An impressive fulfilment rate of 69% declined to 48% when they were weighted by voter priority.
Separately, the volunteer-run Policy Tracker project also recently completed its analysis of the same manifesto. The group categorised pledges differently from past researchers, including more subjective statements in the analysis. Using this method, it reports that just 29% of the previous government's pledges were fulfilled, with a further 55% "in progress" by the time the 2019 election was called.
https://theconversation.com/do-politicians-break-their-promises-once-in-government-what-the-evidence-says-127761
https://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/promisetracker/
Money, Sex and Broken Promises: Politicians' Bad Behaviour Reduces Trust
https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/72/3/481/5054722
We collected 232 promises (from party documents and the media) at the official start of the election campaign in 2010 until polling day. To measure if a promise was kept, we used sources like Hansard, official political communications, budget papers and, as a last resort, media reports.
We found most promises made were specific rather than general, and most – 87% – were kept. But, some of those needed to be altered in some way and were only partially kept. This reflected the compromise required to get bills through the two houses, neither controlled by the Labor party.
That the Gillard government was able to keep the majority of its pledges but be tarred with perceptions of deception is what some academics label the "pledge puzzle".
So why is there a disconnect between perceptions and reality? One reason is that not all promises are equal. Implementing a carbon tax was seen as a big promise to break. Other famous examples include Bob Hawke promising at his 1987 election launch that no Australian child would live in poverty by 1990, and John Howard promising in 1996 to "never ever" introduce a goods and services tax. Measuring the importance of a promise to voters (salience) is an important aspect that may help us better understand the "pledge puzzle" and mistrust of politicians.
The pledge puzzle also suggests that broken promises are only one aspect of how voters regard their politicians. it also tells us that there are other factors to consider – such as media coverage, negative campaigning and political infighting and rorting – to better explain why public trust in Australian politicians is falling. We also know that citizens who are more trusting of politicians are more trusting individuals generally and vice versa.
Overall, our findings give cause for optimism about the role of election promises in representative democracy. We found that politicians do take promises seriously, and that they do try to keep them. Yet, this finding by itself is unlikely to bolster Australians' trust in their elected representatives at this election until politicians' report cards improve on other measures.
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2018/opinion/politicians-do-keep-their-promises
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201011/promises-promises-when-politicians-don-t-deliver
corruption police vs general population statistics
Corrupt acts
Police officers have several opportunities to gain personally from their status and authority as law enforcement officers. The Knapp Commission, which investigated corruption in the New York City Police Department in the early 1970s, divided corrupt officers into two types: meat-eaters, who "aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain", and grass-eaters, who "simply accept the payoffs that the happenstances of police work throw their way."[3]
There are multiple typologies of police corruption that have been asserted by academics. However, common corrupt acts that have been committed by police officers can be classified as follows:[4]
Corruption of authority: When police officers receive free drinks, meals, and other gratuities, because they are police officers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, they convey an image of corruption.[5][6][7][8]
Extortion/bribery: Demanding or receiving payment for criminal offenses, to overlook a crime or a possible future crime. Types of bribery are protection for illegal activities, ticket fixing, altering testimony, destroying evidence, and selling criminal information. Bribery is one of the most common acts of corruption.
Theft and burglary Is when an officer or department steals from an arrest and crime victims or corpses. Examples are taking drugs for personal use in a drug bust, and taking personal objects from a corpse at the scene of a crime. A theft can also occur within a department. An officer can steal property from the department's evidence room or property room for personal use.[citation needed]
Shakedowns: When a police officer is aware of a crime and the violator but accepts a bribe for not arresting the violator (Roebuck & Barker, 1973).
"Fixing": Undermining criminal prosecutions by withholding evidence or failing to appear at judicial hearings, for bribery or as a personal favor.
Perjury: Lying to protect other officers or oneself in a court of law or a department investigation.
Internal payoffs: Prerogatives and prerequisites of law enforcement organizations, such as shifts and holidays, being bought and sold.
The "frameup": The planting or adding to evidence, especially in drug cases.
Ticket fixing: Police officers cancelling traffic tickets as a favor to the friends and family of other police officers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_corruption
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Corruption_Barometer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_International
- illusion of choice?
The Empire Files - Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0OnOpgaAjg
Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on Rigged Corporate Elections, Clinton Criminals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4Ii_qyNng
https://www.youtube.com/c/EmpireFiles/videos
Throughout the second and third terms of the Hawke Government, Keating led a significant overhaul of the long-stagnant Australian taxation system. In 1985, he became a passionate advocate within the Cabinet for the introduction of a broad-based consumption tax, similar in nature to the goods and services tax that was later introduced by the Howard Government, as a means of addressing Australia's chronic balance of payments issue.[24][25] In the build-up to the 1984 election, Hawke promised a policy paper on taxation reform to be discussed with all stakeholders at a "National Taxation Summit". Three options – A, B and C – were presented in the paper, with Keating and his Treasury colleagues fiercely advocating for C, which included a consumption tax of 15% on goods and services along with reductions in personal and company income tax, a fringe benefits tax and a capital gains tax. Although Keating was able to win the support of a reluctant Cabinet, Hawke believed that the opposition from the public, the ACTU, and the business community would be too great. He therefore decided to abandon any plans for a consumption tax, although the remainder of the reforms were adopted in the tax reform package. The loss of the consumption tax was seen a defeat for Keating; he later joked about it at a press conference, saying, "It's a bit like Ben Hur. We've crossed the line with one wheel off, but we have crossed the line."[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard
- myths are often used to provide legitimacy in a cult of personality? Ironically, this seems to be common throught the world?
cult of personality
A cult of personality, or cult of the leader,[1] arises when a country's regime – or, more rarely, an individual – uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is established by modern social engineering techniques, usually by the state or the party in one-party states and dominant-party states. It is often seen in totalitarian or authoritarian countries.
The term came to prominence in 1956, in Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, given on the final day of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the speech, Khrushchev, who was the First Secretary of the Communist Party – in effect, the leader of the country – criticized the lionization and idealization of Joseph Stalin, and by implication, his Communist contemporary Mao Zedong, as being contrary to Marxist doctrine. The speech was later made public and was part of the "de-Stalinization" process in the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cults_of_personality
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+interview+honeydicking+kim+jong+un
The Interview (2014) - A Fake Friend Scene (10_10) _ Movieclips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74PUHyVj4BQ
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1207709763945/kim-jong-un-the-man-who-rules-north-korea
jong il family myths
1. Hamburger creator
Kim Jong Un's father Kim Jong Il claimed he invented the hamburger, calling it "double bread with meat," with grand dreams that it would become a new national dish as he unsuccessfully introduced it to the nation's universities.
2. Speaking of food
3. Supernatural bodily functions
Kim's official biography stated that he never needed to use a toilet because his body was so well calibrated he didn't urinate or defecate.
4. Magical beginnings
5. Fashion icon
6. Everyone loves us
7. Time thieves
8. Greatness is hereditary
9. No such thing as the internet
10. Fake village
https://nypost.com/2017/04/14/10-kooky-myths-about-kim-jong-un-and-his-family/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-02/family-dynasties-why-are-the-kims-still-in-power/7984320
- ensure groupthink via heierarchal systems. That means that via peer pressure things are less likely to change?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/it-business-startup-resources-random.html
peer pressure statistics
Ninety percent of teens reported having experienced peer pressure, while 28 percent reported that their social status was boosted after they gave in to peer pressure. Close to one-third of first-time pain reliever pill abusers reported that they were pressured into taking the pill.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/peer-pressure-statistics-examples-signs.
Peer Pressure With Drug and Alcohol Use
Drug and alcohol use is one of the biggest concerns when it comes to peer pressure. Even if parents have taught their teenagers about the dangers of drinking and using drugs, peer pressure may influence them to take part in these activities. In fact:
According to The Canadian Lung Association, "my friends smoke" and "I thought it was cool" are two of the main reasons those between the ages of 12 and 17 start smoking.
The Canadian Lung Association also found that 70 percent of teens who smoke have friends who smoke or started smoking because of peer pressure.
According to the Underage Drinking Research Initiative, two-thirds of 10th graders and two-fifths of 8th graders have tried alcohol.
The Monitoring the Future Survey from the same initiative found that approximately 30 percent of 8th graders have used illicit drugs.
The survey also made three conclusions about the effect of peer pressure on drug and alcohol use:
Teens with friends who do drugs and drink alcohol are more likely to do the same.
Teens who drink alcohol and do drugs are more likely to convince their friends to do it too.
Teens who do drugs and drink alcohol are more likely to seek out other teens who do the same.
https://teens.lovetoknow.com/Statistics_on_Peer_Pressure
- contracts such as security clearances, trade secrets law, contract law, employment contracts, etc... can be used to bind people into agreements which make them difficult to break away from the system in question
security clearance questionnaire
https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-questions-does-the-US-OPM-ask-when-doing-a-security-clearance-investigation
https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
Oxford Union Debate - Snowden a Hero (Hedges_Machon_Binney_Huhne v. Vaughan_Toobin_Baker_Crowley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7iQZOSpv4A
- ensure that prospective leaders (and people in general) are naive/green and don't know how the overall system works? That way they won't think about ways to properly change the system before it's too late?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/mental-illness-and-human-mind-control.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-occupy-movement-veterans-for-peace.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/shale-oil-some-us-intelligencedefense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/some-counter-terrorism-defense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/middle-easternafricanasian-background.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/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-background-economic-warfare-and.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=danny+sjursen
Danny Sjursen
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJOa4KxmHboMQCZHDZVe2Vuadlt_V441_
Healthcare and social security
Jorgensen supports a free-market healthcare system financed by providing individuals with a spending account and allowing individuals to keep any savings, which she believes would create an increased incentive for healthcare providers to compete by meeting consumer demand for low cost services.[18][19][20] She opposes single-payer healthcare, calling it "disastrous."[20]
Jorgensen supports replacing the Social Security system with individual retirement accounts.[21] In the final debate of the primaries, candidate Jacob Hornberger accused Jorgensen of "support[ing] the welfare state through Social Security and Medicare"; In response, Jorgensen called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" and said that she would allow people to opt-out of the program on her first day in office. However, she emphasized the constitutional inability of a president to unilaterally end the program without the support of Congress, as well as the need for the government to fulfill existing Social Security obligations.[22][23] Under Jorgensen's plan, those who opt out would direct 6.2% of their future payroll taxes in individual retirement accounts and receive prorated Social Security benefits for existing contributions as zero-coupon bonds for retirement.[24]
Criminal justice and drug policy
Jorgensen opposes federal civil asset forfeiture and qualified immunity.[25] Jorgensen opposes the war on drugs and supports abolishing drug laws, promising to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders.[26] She has urged the de-militarization of police.[27]
Foreign policy and defense
Jorgensen opposes embargoes, economic sanctions, and foreign aid; she supports non-interventionism, armed neutrality, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from abroad.[28][29][25][30]
Immigration, economics, and trade
Jorgensen calls for deregulation, arguing that it would reduce poverty.[31] She supports cutting government spending to reduce taxes.[32]
Jorgensen supports the freedom of American citizens to travel and trade, calls for the elimination of trade barriers and tariffs, and supports the repeal of quotas on the number of people who can legally enter the United States to work, visit, or reside.[33] In a Libertarian presidential primary debate, Jorgensen said she would immediately stop construction on President Donald Trump's border wall. During another primary debate she blamed anti-immigration sentiment on disproportionate media coverage of crimes by immigrants. She argued that immigration helps the economy and that the blending of cultures is beneficial.[34][35][36][37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jorgensen
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jacqui-lambie-3-0-from-psych-ward-to-parliament-wrecking-ball-to-a-new-approach-20190913-p52r0x.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/obamas-naive-idealism-has-caused-havoc-as-america-makes-the-same/
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/bernie-sanders-naive-obama-214222
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/10/was-obama-naive/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban#Early_life_and_education
- get people used to their station in life from an early stage via segregation, separation, training, etc... This means that they will be demoralised and less likely to fight it later in life? You can often identify these traits from a young age in young children in the school system. This is backed up by the type of school they go to, the uniform they wear, their aspirations, etc? You can see it later in life by through their choices, profession, beliefs, aspirations, etc?

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html

From West Point to Anti-Empire, (Ret) Major Danny Sjursen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C686AZv3izA
white collar meaning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker
Groups of working individuals are typically classified based on the colors of their collars worn at work; these can commonly reflect one's occupation or sometimes gender.[1] White-collar workers are named for the white-collared shirts that were fashionable among office workers in the early and mid-20th century. Blue-collar workers are referred to as such because in the early 20th century, they usually wore sturdy, inexpensive clothing that did not show dirt easily, such as blue denim or cambric shirts. Various other "collar" descriptions exist as well.
Contents
1 White collar
2 Blue collar
3 Pink collar
4 Gold collar
5 Other classifications
6 References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designation_of_workers_by_collar_color
station in life
Your 'station in life' includes such things as age bracket, marital status, whether or not you have children, whether you are a priest, religious or layperson, perhaps your work status (ie if you are an employer or not).
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/166974/whats-the-meaning-of-stations-in-life
https://www.quora.com/What-does-station-of-life-mean
https://medium.com/the-ascent/dont-apologize-for-your-station-in-life-799ad2475ae
racism by demographic
https://theconversation.com/twelve-charts-on-race-and-racism-in-australia-105961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Cape_Colony
Growing up in the world of academia, it was impossible to miss the issue of representation in my field. I just had to look around at the faces walking the halls of the elite institutions I was lucky to inhabit. I worked as an undergrad in Yale's psychology department, where one out of 31 current faculty members is Black. I did my Ph.D. in MIT's brain and cognitive sciences department, where one out of 57 professors was Black. I'm now a postdoc at Rockefeller University, where one out of 78 heads of lab is Black, and the first Black professor in the university's history, Erich Jarvis, didn't join the faculty until in 2016. These liberal strongholds, which have openly espoused the values of diversity and inclusion for decades, remain very white at the top levels.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-fix-sciences-diversity-problem/
The president has been called a "segregationist" for repealing an order forcing suburbs to build "affordable housing" or lose funding. But it's got nothing to do with race – 35% of those living in the 'burbs are non-white already.
President Donald Trump this week repealed an Obama era executive order called the AFFH (Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing). It was gutted quickly after Trump took office, but Trump finally repealed it completely on the 29th of July. The original act was blatant social engineering, which would have forced suburban towns to build high-density housing in the middle of low-density areas.
To no one's surprise, the political left has already tried to brand this as racist. Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy outright called President Trump "a segregationist." Kevin Liptak and Gregory Wallace at CNN stated that Trump was trying to "stoke racial divisions" with the administrative rule change. This of course ignores the fact that non-white populations in suburbs have been rising since the 1990s, and is now up to 35 percent of the total, according to the left-leaning Brookings Institute.
But hey, why let facts get in the way of a good narrative? The fact that the suburban population reflects the overall diversity of the country means absolutely nothing to the political left. Any time you oppose the idea of social engineering like the AFFH, you are a racist. Granted, as I've seen in my own life, you're branded a racist for challenging any narrative.
There are two realities at work here. The first is that the original executive order was a disastrous idea even in concept. Low density areas would have to scrap zoning laws, build bigger water and sewer lines, expand social services, add mass transit, and so forth. This would increase taxes, making life for those who don't want to live in a giant city too much like… living in a giant city. It defeats the purpose of a low-density area! It makes about as much sense as a vegan restaurant introducing steak to the menu.
The second is how much it ignores reality. As I mentioned earlier, more and more people who are non-white are fleeing to the suburbs. The appeal of those areas and that type of life isn't something that has anything to do with skin color. It has everything to do with quality of life. As someone who lived in the suburbs of Chicago in the 1990s, I know it's never been a 'whites only' type of life. Ever. If there was even a shred of discrimination in those neighborhoods, the federal government would snap down on it before you could blink.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/496658-trump-obama-plan-suburbs/
white supremacy police force
https://www.justsecurity.org/70507/white-supremacist-infiltration-of-us-police-forces-fact-checking-national-security-advisor-obrien/
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/
LIVING HISTORIES OF WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICING
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/E2503031AD0D2A85B464E56D44930166/core-reader
In white supremacist circles, a ghost skin is a white supremacist who refrains from openly displaying his racist beliefs for the purpose of blending into wider society and surreptitiously furthering his agenda. The term has been used in particular to refer to the entryism of racist activists in law enforcement.[1][2][3]
In an FBI Intelligence Assessment from 2006, the FBI Counterterrorism Division provides an overview of white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement and mentions that use of the term came to the agency's attention in late 2004.[4][2] In 2001, two law enforcement officers in Williamson County, Texas were fired after it was discovered they were members of the Ku Klux Klan.[3][5]
According to the Oregon National Socialist Movement website, explicitly cited by the 2006 FBI report, "Ghost Skins don't shave their heads, wear boots, braces or anything else that can visually identify them as Nazis. [They] strive to blend into society to be unreconizable [sic] by the jewish [sic] enemy. When it serves [their] purposes [they] gladly act politically correct. [They] are at war and [they] use the weapon of deception to deny the enemy intelligence they could use against [them]."[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_skin
Western leadership
The review revealed that Western leadership principles have focused on elements such as profit generation, long term future planning, human relationships and strategic planning. Workers were traditionally seen as impersonal components of production, and management theories prioritised achievement of objectives and maintaining command.
More recent approaches have emphasised the value of respecting employees, valuing their contribution and promoting their career development. This shift towards mutual respect is closely aligned to the Chinese principle of interactional respect.
Chinese leadership
Ancient Chinese philosophy is firmly entrenched in traditional Chinese leadership, with a strong focus on improving employees through personal development. Leaders in a Chinese environment are expected to regard "ethical considerations above the achievement of profit". Other elements of Chinese leadership principles include assuming the role of inspirational character, leading by example in terms of promoting equality, simple living and harmony with nature and others.
https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/human-capital/articles/chinese-western-leadership-models.html
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asian-vs-western-leadership-styles-andrew-simmonds
https://au.news.yahoo.com/chinese-media-mocks-australia-cartoon-economic-warning-101404997.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
- stop minorities from having a say. This is best demonstrated via election rigging techniques in many countries wherein those that don't do too well are discouraged from voting, stopping the wider population from getting a proper education, ignoring them, suppressing them, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
The Problem With "White Fragility" (TMBS 146)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxtTMIoZ4xs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=apu+simpsons+funny
The survey found Australians greatly overestimated the number of jobs in the gas industry, believing about 8 per cent of Australian jobs came from the sector. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggests just 0.2 per cent of all jobs are involved in the extraction of oil and gas.
The response mirrored similar results on the public's overestimation of the number of jobs in the coal industry, which has remained steady since last year.
"When it comes to employment in the gas industry, Australians overestimate the gas workforce by a factor of 40," Mr Merzian said.
"So what that means is that Australians think there are over a million working in the industry, when in reality it's more like 28,000."
When it came to action on climate change, the poll found 63 per cent of Australians thought governments were not doing enough, and half thought fossil fuel producers should pay for more action.
There was a jump in support for Australia going further than other countries, with 71 per cent saying Australia should be a global leader — up from 62 per cent last year.
And 68 per cent of respondents agreed Australia should have a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 — something already in place in the UK and New Zealand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-28/australia-institute-2020-climate-change-report-concern-growing/12764874
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-10-27/reef-detached-discovered-cape-york/12816760
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
Get Them Early - Control Them For Life - David Icke Dot-Connector Videocast (Please Share) - SNKMUyvbLNIb
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SNKMUyvbLNIb/
https://soundcloud.com/user-222860353/get-them-early-control-them-for-life-david-icke-dot-connector-videocast
Renegade Inc _ Learning To Not Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKnApMs8ObE
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
trained children spies kgb
Russian Spy Ring Aimed to Make Children Agents - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444097904577537044185191340
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Foreign_Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
trained children spies cia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/exclusive-us-funded-somali-intelligence-agency-has-been-using-kids-as-spies/2016/05/06/974c9144-0ce3-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/10/the-science-of-spying-how-the-cia-secretly-recruits-academics
https://alias.fandom.com/wiki/Anna_Espinosa
https://alias.fandom.com/wiki/5.12_There%27s_Only_One_Sydney_Bristow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvin_Sloane
https://alias.fandom.com/wiki/Ned_Bolger
https://alias.fandom.com/wiki/Project_Christmas
- maintain control of foreign affairs and military of allies. This can mean that allies aren't allowed to use weapons without approval from a major power (in a imperial/colonial/neo-colonial complex) in only situations that they care about, forcing allies to use only weapons from a major power, etc...
CrossTalk Bullhorns _ Quarantine Edition _ Is 2020 Another 1917
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ss5XUWfIo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_America%27s_Adversaries_Through_Sanctions_Act
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2020/12/03/turkey-sanctions-over-s-400-made-mandatory-in-defense-bill/
According to part of a document produced in 2006 by the UK Parliament's Select Committee on Defence, accessible on the UK parliament's official website:"The USA has the ability to deny access to GPS at any time, rendering that form of navigation and targeting useless if the UK were to launch without US approval."
The same document also notes "…it is difficult to conceive of any situation in which a Prime Minister would fire Trident without prior US approval." It later comments that "the most likely scenario in which Trident would actually be used is that Britain would give legitimacy to a US nuclear strike by participating in it."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/494721-covid19-bill-trident-cancellation/
Influences of cryptography
What was unknown to the participants of the Conference was that the American "Black Chamber" (the Cypher Bureau, a US intelligence service), commanded by Herbert Yardley, was spying on the delegations' communications with their home capitals. In particular, Japanese communications were deciphered thoroughly, and American negotiators were able to get the absolute minimum possible deal that the Japanese had indicated they would ever accept.[citation needed]
As it was unpopular with much of the Imperial Japanese Navy and with the increasingly active and important ultranationalist groups, the value that the Japanese government accepted was the cause of much suspicion and accusation among Japanese politicians and naval officers.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty
abraham accords
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_Arab_Emirates_normalization_agreement
- label people you don't like "Foreigns Agents"? Misuse/abuse national security laws? Insist defense is offense so that you can justify war?
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-occupy-movement-veterans-for-peace.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/shale-oil-some-us-intelligencedefense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/some-counter-terrorism-defense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/middle-easternafricanasian-background.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/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-background-economic-warfare-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/it-business-startup-resources-random.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Prashad
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/can-americas-f-35-dogfight-worlds-best-fighter-jets-and-win-164638
what do special forces do
Special forces and special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations.[1][2][3] NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, trained, and equipped forces, manned with selected personnel, using unconventional tactics, techniques, and modes of employment".[1][4]
Special forces emerged in the early 20th century, with a significant growth in the field during the Second World War, when "every major army involved in the fighting" created formations devoted to special operations behind enemy lines.[5] Depending on the country, special forces may perform functions including airborne operations, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense, covert ops, direct action, hostage rescue, high-value targets/manhunt, intelligence operations, mobility operations, and unconventional warfare.[6]
In Russian-speaking countries, special forces of any country are typically called spetsnaz, an acronym for "special purpose". In the United States, the term special forces often refers specifically to the U.S. Army's Special Forces, while the term special operations forces (SOF) is used more broadly for these types of units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_special_forces_units
An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.[1]
Means of information gathering are both overt and covert and may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. The assembly and propagation of this information is known as intelligence analysis or intelligence assessment.
Intelligence agencies can provide the following services for their national governments.
Give early warning of impending crises;
Serve national and international crisis management by helping to discern the intentions of current or potential opponents;
Inform national defense planning and military operations (military intelligence);
Protect sensitive information secrets, both of their own sources and activities, and those of other state agencies;
Covertly influence the outcome of events in favor of national interests, or influence international security; and
Defense against the efforts of other national intelligence agencies (counter-intelligence).
There is a distinction between "security intelligence" and "foreign intelligence". Security intelligence pertains to domestic threats (e.g., terrorism, espionage). Foreign intelligence involves information collection relating to the political, or economic activities of foreign states.
Some agencies have been involved in assassination, arms trafficking, coups d'état, and the placement of misinformation (propaganda) as well as other covert operations, in order to support their own or their governments' interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_agency
On Contact - President of Namibia Hage Geingob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpIcTlkj6M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hage_Geingob
https://twitter.com/Truthdig
https://www.truthdig.com/category/columns/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthdig
https://www.facebook.com/Truthdig/
foreign agents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_agent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act
https://www.ag.gov.au/integrity/foreign-influence-transparency-scheme
https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2018/03/1938-foreign-agents-government-paranoia/
treason
In law, treason is criminal disloyalty, typically to the state. It is a crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign. This usually includes things such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.[1]
Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. As jurisdictions around the world abolished petty treason, "treason" came to refer to what was historically known as high treason.
At times, the term traitor has been used as a political epithet, regardless of any verifiable treasonable action. In a civil war or insurrection, the winners may deem the losers to be traitors. Likewise the term traitor is used in heated political discussion – typically as a slur against political dissidents, or against officials in power who are perceived as failing to act in the best interest of their constituents. In certain cases, as with the Dolchstoßlegende (Stab-in-the-back myth), the accusation of treason towards a large group of people can be a unifying political message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
sedition
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent towards, or resistance against established authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interest of sedition.
Typically, sedition is not considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where the history of these legal codes has been traced, there is also a record of the change in the definition of the elements constituting sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within the study of state persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
- spy like crazy? What I didn't realise is that using/abusing intelligence has been somewhat of a very long practice? It's been used to control individuals and groups via blackmail, to aide negotiations, etc... Note that many covert operations make more sense if you understand context. For instance, certain individuals/groups need certain things. Their work and background will make more sense if you understand this context
CIA's intelligence coup with William Binney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsbDRDNHGYc
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/things-spies-have-stolen-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/04/what-happened-to-escaped-nazis-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/cybersecurity-attack-background.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-occupy-movement-veterans-for-peace.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/shale-oil-some-us-intelligencedefense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/some-counter-terrorism-defense.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/middle-easternafricanasian-background.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/us-drone-warfare-program-financial.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-background-economic-warfare-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/big-data-and-social-trading-investments.html
Influences of cryptography
What was unknown to the participants of the Conference was that the American "Black Chamber" (the Cypher Bureau, a US intelligence service), commanded by Herbert Yardley, was spying on the delegations' communications with their home capitals. In particular, Japanese communications were deciphered thoroughly, and American negotiators were able to get the absolute minimum possible deal that the Japanese had indicated they would ever accept.[citation needed]
As it was unpopular with much of the Imperial Japanese Navy and with the increasingly active and important ultranationalist groups, the value that the Japanese government accepted was the cause of much suspicion and accusation among Japanese politicians and naval officers.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty
zerohedge
The most strongly held belief by Zero Hedge is in Austrian economics, and that economic cycles are really credit cycles, and that the quantitative easing ("QE") by global central banks is a temporary and artificial asset-price support scheme, that makes the credit cycle even more extreme; and hence the site's strongly bearish views.[f][20] As a result of this view, Zero Hedge supports assets that are outside of the central banking system, including precious metals and gold,[23][54] and even cryptocurrencies. The site is strongly against Keynesian economics,[55] and sees quantitative easing as a Keynesian "money printing trick",[56] and vilifies advocates of this approach, such as Paul Krugman in particular.[57][g] The site praises writers with similar views, such Albert Edwards and John Hussman.
Critics of Zero Hedge label the site a "permabear",[22] whose views missed the global recovery since 2013. Zero Hedge responds that the since 2013, global central banks have undertaken a continuous program of quantitative easing ("QE") (e.g. aggregate monthly easing has rarely dropped below the level of QE1 or QE2, see graphic opposite),[58] and when QE1 and QE2 ended, markets collapsed. The site references Japan, whose market set new lows after each round of QE, from 1994–2013,[59] and where the latest round of QE, started in 2013, has seen the BOJ become a dominant owner of the Nikkei 225.[60][61]
Zero Hedge maintains a number of financial views/theories which are considered conspiratorial, and/or hard-to-prove or unprovable;[62][21] notable views include:[h]
Price manipulation by high-frequency trading ("HFT"). The belief that investment banks/funds use HFT/"dark pools" to manipulate prices;[i]
Precious metals manipulation. The belief that investment banks manipulate precious metals prices to suit their derivative books;[j]
Plunge-protection-team ("PPT"). The belief that central banks intervene in markets on a frequent, almost daily basis, to support prices;[k]
U.S banks front running the U.S. FED. The belief that U.S. investment banks, most profitable of all global investment banks, have knowledge of PPT trades;[l]
Market illiquidity. The belief that market liquidity, when HFT and PPT flows are taken out, is low, implying prices are artificial;[m]
Chinese fraud. The belief that Chinese economic data is made-up, and that many Chinese companies are fraudulent (called "fraudcaps" by the site);[n]
Manipulation of house prices. The belief that central bankers, Mark Carney as most typical,[o] use houses as stimulus, by loosening mortgage terms.[p]
A connected theme from the above views is that central banks have nationalized capital markets, that prices are artificial and do not reflect economic theory, that U.S. financial institutions have profited from this, and that the manipulation of asset prices has driven wealth inequality in society and built up financial risks (due to the leverage against these prices). Zero Hedge often shows the chart of G3 balance sheets versus Amazon's share price (see graphic), concluding that U.S. taxpayer's money has been used by the U.S. FED to make U.S. taxpayers unemployed, as Amazon, despite making few profits, is one of the highest valued companies.
Bearish macroeconomic views and conspiracy theories aside, Zero Hedge is noted as a source of detailed, but proprietary, research from Wall Street investment banks and institutions, on securities, which can be picked up by the financial media.[63][64][65] Sometimes, the research is about other investment banks.[66] It has also been a source of breaking news in the general capital markets industry.[67][23][68][69] In Zero Hedge's early years, it was associated with exposing the unknown world of High-frequency trading ("HFT"), and the HFT techniques that Zero Hedge claimed amounted to market manipulation.[23][70]
Zero Hedge is known for personalized attacks on specific finance professionals, examples being newsletter writer and commodity analyst Dennis Gartman (over 758 articles),[71] Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman (over 703 articles),[72] and fund manager Whitney Tilson (over 325 articles),[73] amongst others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ivandjiiski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Herbert
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=On+the+Edge+presstv
https://www.youtube.com/user/presstv2009/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/PressTVTheDebate/videos
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/27/belarus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/27/belarus-accuses-western-nations-of-sowing-chaos-and-anarchy
https://www.rt.com/news/496918-us-stealing-syria-oil/
The protection of sensitive data is one of the reasons behind the push to gain more independence from the US in military production, the German outlet reported. Moreover, the companies are concerned that Washington maintains control over any equipment using its technology under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and can therefore block arms exports.
"Without ITAR and other US regulatory systems, Europe gets more freedom in who to supply with military products," said Florent Chauvancy, sales director of the Helicopter Engines Department of French manufacturer Safran, as cited by the publication.
One of the advantages of 100 percent European-made products is that these enterprises' data remains in Europe and does not fall into the hands of non-European countries.
According to the report, Safran wants to partner with German manufacturer ZF Friedrichshafen to develop a new drive which could be installed in a large military drone. However, it is currently unclear whether the European military's bid to completely avoid US technology is a realistic one.
https://www.rt.com/business/496898-france-germany-military-technology-us/
- quotas (irrelevant whether they are real or implied). This seems to occur still even in Ivy League Colleges/Universities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota
Numerus clausus ("closed number" in Latin) is one of many methods used to limit the number of students who may study at a university. In many cases, the goal of the numerus clausus is simply to limit the number of students to the maximum feasible in some particularly sought-after areas of studies. In historical terms however, in some countries, numerus clausus policies were religious or racial quotas, both in intent and function.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerus_clausus
ivy league diversity quota
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_quota
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvards-asian-quotas-repeat-an-ugly-history-11570575962
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-asian-quota-in-the-ivy-league/statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota
- fake free trade? Trade agreements basically set bounds on where each country can tread. It tragically means that if you live in a country where there is no/less government aide you may have to move to make the most of your talent and/or hard work?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
In a statement, Mitchell said that TikTok, which has faced issues in the US where the government has asked for it to be banned, was being treated fairly and solely on the basis of its current conduct.
"Huawei was banned by the [former prime minister Malcolm] Turnbull's Government solely on the grounds of what it may do in the future – which is impossible for us to disprove," he said.
Microsoft has said it is interested in buying TikTok's operations in the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, but US President Donald Trump has said he will only give the Redmond software firm until 15 September to conclude a deal; if this does not happen, Trump has said he would ban the social media app in the US.
He quoted from Turnbull's recent memoir, A Bigger Picture, where the ex-politician had written: "That didn't mean we thought Huawei was currently being used to interfere with our telecommunications networks. Our approach was a hedge against a future threat: not the identification of a smoking gun but a loaded one."
Mitchell contrasted the Huawei ban in Australia with what had transpired in the UK, saying the British Government had cleared Huawei to deliver 5G after a thorough review and Huawei would continue to do so until 2027.
"The recent restrictions on Huawei delivering 5G in the UK were only forced by the changes to US trade policy and were not related to cyber-security concerns about Huawei," he pointed out.
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/huawei-says-tiktok-treated-on-merit-while-it-was-given-raw-deal.html
Washington has objected to the Russian deal. The Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 14, 2019, that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper warned Egyptian Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi of possible sanctions over Cairo's purchase of Russian warplanes under the US CAATSA provision that bars the purchase of Russian military equipment. It added that such a deal would affect future defense deals between Cairo and Washington.
Salem said that the United States cannot pressure Egypt to cancel the deal as Egypt has sought various sources of armament so that no country would have control over its decisions.
"Why doesn't the US supply Egypt with the F-35 fighters that it supplied Israel with, since it is objecting to the Russian Su-35 fighters deal?" he asked, adding that Egypt's military seeks to acquire equipment equal to that owned by Israel.
Bakhit said, "Egypt's national security is above anything else. If that requires that Egypt acquires the Su-35 fighters, then it should, and is free to decide on the matter. The US has given Israel the newest pieces of its arsenal, which are the F-35 fighters. Thus, the US is using double standards with Egypt when threatening sanctions."
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/egypt-arms-deal-russia-fighter-jets-united-states-sanctions.html
https://www.rt.com/business/497467-huawei-chip-production-us-sanctions/
The Trump administration's bid to seize Chinese platform TikTok and hand it over to already-monopolistic Microsoft is part of a huge power grab, as the deteriorating quality of US propaganda puts its narrative dominance at risk.
The US government has made clear the fact it won't rest until the user-facing portion of the internet is under its control. It is no longer enough for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube/Google to merely eject hundreds of anti-establishment accounts on command, accompanied by stated rationales that would be laughable if they didn't trample on the fundamental freedoms of the account owners.
TikTok – hardly a bastion of subversive political thought – must nevertheless be wrested from its Chinese owners ByteDance and handed to Microsoft, a convicted antitrust violator, lest Beijing be permitted to challenge Washington for control over the hearts and minds of online youth.
It's ironic that, with western culture in the grip of a reckoning with its colonial past, the US is so intent on subjugating the world's peoples with a lighter-touch, tech-enabled version of colonialism that doesn't require the deployment of ships to foreign shores (though those 800+ military bases around the world don't hurt). A direct line to the eyes and ears of targeted peoples is sufficient to maintain Hegemony 2.0.
But the quality of US propaganda has deteriorated noticeably over the years, to the point where four out of five Americans believe their media is biased. Rather than step up their propaganda game, Washington's response has always been to stifle competition, either using censorship enacted through its private-sector partners, or by buying competitors' silence. Interlopers like TikTok are crushed – or bought out by the likes of Microsoft, massive companies intertwined with state intelligence agencies.
...
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are constantly being urged to censor an ever-larger range of opinions as the mainstream media struggles not to trip over its own falsehoods  and hemorrhages cash to the victims of its lies.
At the heart of the TikTok seizure – which expanded on Friday to an assault on Chinese platform WeChat – is a hatred of competition. As Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube become little more than mainstream media mouthpieces, users will naturally flock to other platforms, especially those with massive user bases like their Chinese competitors. Washington's pet platforms can hardly roll back their censorship regimes – not with an election just a few months away. So, in the grand tradition of organized crime, they've made ByteDance an offer they can't refuse. Climb in bed with Microsoft – the most corrupt of the bunch – or get banned.
Freedom isn't free, as the saying goes. Neither are America's celebrated "free markets."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/497410-microsoft-tiktok-information-colonialism-monopoly/
- agreements (open and covert). For instance, there have been formal and informal agreements to not challenge one another in particular areas
https://www.smh.com.au/national/competition-without-catastrophe-us-policy-with-china-if-biden-wins-20200803-p55hxz.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-navys-newest-aircraft-carrier-trained-to-lead-defenses-against-enemy-air-attack-for-the-first-time/ar-BB17wCJf
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-a-fake-aircraft-carrier-reveals-about-how-iran-plans-to-take-on-the-us/ar-BB17rYGt
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/uss-wasp-worst-aircraft-carrier-history-166151
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/us-treaties/bevans/m-ust000002-0351.pdf
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was a treaty signed during 1922 among the major nations that had won World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction. It was negotiated at the Washington Naval Conference, held in Washington, D.C., from November 1921 to February 1922, and it was signed by the governments of Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan. It limited the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers by the signatories. The numbers of other categories of warships, including cruisers, destroyers and submarines, were not limited by the treaty, but those ships were limited to 10,000 tons displacement each.
The treaty was concluded on February 6, 1922. Ratifications of that treaty were exchanged in Washington on August 17, 1923, and it was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on April 16, 1924.[1]
Later naval arms limitation conferences sought additional limitations of warship building. The terms of the Washington treaty were modified by the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936. By the mid-1930s, Japan and Italy renounced the treaties, while Germany renounced the Treaty of Versailles which had limited its navy. Naval arms limitation became increasingly difficult for the other signatories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty
The London Naval Treaty was an agreement between Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address a loophole in the formidable 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, it regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Naval_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_London_Naval_Treaty
start treaty
START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994.[1] The treaty barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and bombers. START negotiated the largest and most complex arms control treaty in history, and its final implementation in late 2001 resulted in the removal of about 80 percent of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence. Proposed by United States President Ronald Reagan, it was renamed START I after negotiations began on the second START treaty.
The START I treaty expired 5 December 2009. On 8 April 2010, the replacement New START treaty was signed in Prague by United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Following ratification by the U.S. Senate and the Federal Assembly of Russia, it went into force on 26 January 2011. This Treaty was the first to provide tremendous reductions of American and Soviet/Russian strategic nuclear weapons.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/START_I
New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) (Russian: СНВ-III, SNV-III) is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague,[3][4] and, after ratification,[5][6] entered into force on 5 February 2011.[1] It is expected to last at least until 2021.
New START replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was to expire in December 2012. It follows the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009; the proposed START II treaty, which never entered into force; and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.
The treaty calls for halving the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers. A new inspection and verification regime will be established, replacing the SORT mechanism. It does not limit the number of operationally inactive nuclear warheads stockpiled by Russia and the United States, a number in the high thousands.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_START
- stereotypes, innuendo, fake news, etc... As long as it can be used to maintain a particular image of a individual or group then it's fine
In the WSJ article, writer Sadanand Dhume has given a detailed account of the Indian and Tamil Brahmin diaspora.
Rao commented: "Dalits are still looked at as essentially subhuman, genetically inferior, and lazy by most upper-caste Hindus. This has been a special societal coding, effortlessly passed down from generation to generation.
"You may be designing the hottest network switches or AI visual interfaces and have graduated from the most elite institutions, but that has not made a difference on how people have been conditioned to think when it comes to what cradle of caste people are disgorged from.
"So, when a tightly knit club of upper-caste Indians get together, you can be assured that there's a good chance that team composition for prized projects, promotions, and bonuses will only be for the chosen ones.
"Meanwhile, the life of Dalit engineers are stalked by the daily terror of being outed. Bullied, humiliated, with careers in tatters and H-1B visas revoked, their history continues to be a living nightmare."
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/at-home-or-abroad,-india-s-caste-system-comes-to-the-fore.html
dalit caste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit
Characteristics
Untouchables of Malabar, Kerala (1906).
According to Sarah Pinto, an anthropologist, modern untouchability in India applies to people whose work relates to "meat, and bodily fluids".[20] Based on the punishments prescribed in The Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955 the following practices could be understood to have been associated with Untouchability in India[21]:
Prohibition from eating with other members
Provision of separate cups in village tea stalls
Separate seating arrangements and utensils in restaurants
Segregation in seating and food arrangements at village functions and festivals
Prohibition from entering places of public worship
Prohibition from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of higher caste members
Prohibition from entering other caste homes
Prohibition from using common village paths
Separate burial/cremation grounds
Prohibition from accessing common/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.)
Segregation (separate seating area) of children in schools
Bonded labour
Social boycotts by other castes for refusing to perform their "duties"[22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability
Dalit studies is a new field of research in India which looks at the problem of marginalised groups, namely Dalits, tribals, religious minorities, women from excluded groups, denotified tribes, physically challenged and similar groups in economic, social and political spheres. Dalit studies scholars also undertake research on the nature and forms of discrimination and social exclusion faced by marginalised groups.[1]
The broad objectives of Dalit studies can be delineated as follows:
To undertake research to develop an understanding of the consequences of social exclusion and discrimination on economic growth and poverty, education, health, political participation and on the well-being of the marginalised social groups.
To undertake research on policies to overcome discrimination, particularly 'exclusion and discrimination-induced deprivation' and its consequences.
To provide knowledge support to policy-making bodies to develop inclusive policies.
To provide knowledge support to international development and funding agencies to enable them to shape their approach and funding policies towards problems of excluded groups.
To provide knowledge-support to civil society organisations at the grassroot, state and national levels.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_studies
- maintain superiority in any system that you intend to implement. For instance, if you have a lot of money support capitalism, if you're smart support intellectualism, if you're pious support religiousity, if you have a strong military support militiarism, etc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism
Renegade Inc _ Lions Led by Donkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daUELxE1K60
5 Hidden Facts About Ruth Bader Ginsburg & The Supreme Court (Web Exclusive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptMLyHUAUQ
Heated Debate On Capitalism with America's Most Prominent Marxist Economist - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-zFgxCUnY
Prison Labor Is The Only Way To Fight Fire - Says MSM (Web Exclusive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T2-J2EjGA4
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mississippi-vote-jim-crow-era-law-designed-secure/story?id=72862667
- scapegoat others, finger point, ignore, and demonise victims who don't support your opinion?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/29/liberalism-is-facing-a-crisis-and-its-a-cop-out-to-blame-china-and-russia-analyst-claims
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-05/google-staff-rally-in-support-of-ousted-ai-ethicist-timnit-gebru/12953844
https://www.twincities.com/2020/08/01/david-brooks-the-future-of-american-liberalism/
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/western-liberalism-s-crisis-self-inflicted
https://www.itwire.com/open-sauce/fletcher-claims-5g-misinformation-being-spread-by-state-actors.html
Manifesto for killings
In early February 2013, coincident with the start of a series of revenge shootings, Dorner was purported to have posted a detailed note on his Facebook page, discussing his history, motivations, and plans.[4] This 11,000-word post became known as his "manifesto".[36]
Dorner listed 40 law enforcement personnel whom he was prepared to kill, and stated: "I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days," the posting began. "Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse...."[37][38] Dorner issued a single demand: a public admission by the LAPD that his termination was in retaliation for reporting excessive force. He also asked journalists to pursue "the truth", pointing out specific lines of investigation for reporters to follow under the Freedom of Information Act, and said that "video evidence" was sent to multiple news agencies.
On February 9, 2013, in response to Dorner's manifesto and the start of the killing spree, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck informed Dorner through the media that there would be a review of the disciplinary case that led to Dorner's dismissal.[39][40] Beck said officials would re-examine the allegations by Dorner that his law enforcement career was undone by racist colleagues.[40][41][42]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt
The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the Rampart CRASH unit were implicated in some form of misconduct, making it one of the most widespread cases of documented police corruption in U.S. history, responsible for a long list of offenses including unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities.[1]
The Rampart investigation, based mainly on statements of admitted corrupt CRASH officer Rafael Pérez, initially implicated over 70 officers in wrongdoing. Of those officers, enough evidence was found to bring 58 before an internal administrative board. However, only 24 were actually found to have committed any wrongdoing, with twelve given suspensions of various lengths, seven forced into resignation or retirement, and five terminated.[2]
As a result of the probe into falsified evidence and police perjury, 106 prior criminal convictions were overturned.[3] The scandal resulted in more than 140 civil lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles, California, costing the city an estimated $125 million in settlements.[4]
Partly as a result of the scandal, Mayor James K. Hahn did not rehire Police Chief Bernard Parks in 2002. Both the scandal and the de facto firing of Parks are believed to have precipitated Hahn's defeat by Antonio Villaraigosa in the 2005 mayoral election.[5] As of 2020, the full extent of Rampart corruption is not known, and several rape, homicide and robbery investigations involving Rampart officers remain unsolved.[6][7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
unsolved crime statistics
Police across America have faced heavy criticism in recent weeks over instances of brutality and excessive force.
But some policing critics have also noted that the country's law enforcement agencies are often unable to fulfill one of their main tasks: to solve crimes.
Federal government data from 2018 show that just 46% of all violent crimes reported to police were "cleared" with an arrest, and 18% of property crimes were cleared.
Beyond that, only an estimated 43% of people who were the victims of violent crimes reported the incidents to police.
https://www.insider.com/police-dont-solve-most-violent-property-crimes-data-2020-6
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/01/most-violent-and-property-crimes-in-the-u-s-go-unsolved/
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17896034/murder-crime-clearance-fbi-report
https://www.projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/
- re-interpret and twist things any which way you want. Depending on who you listen to religion/Jesus has been capitalist, communist, anarchist, pacifist, fighter, etc... One minute religious people are supposed to be poor/pacifist, the next their supposed to be rich/fighters? If you understand how they've interpreted things then you'll begin to understand why things look so strange/awkward. Many people acknowledge that many of those at the top aren't great role models?
Renegade Inc _ Prosperity Gospel… Buying Salvation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg26avx3Xbc
working poor trend
https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/children-in-working-poor-families
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/07/uk-live-poverty-charity-joseph-rowntree-foundation
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
people who have multiple jobs trend
https://www.miragenews.com/1-in-4-employed-people-under-30-work-multiple-jobs/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2019/08/04/are-most-people-actually-working-two-or-three-jobs-not-really/#609432b84a56
evangelical
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
reverse robin hood
Reverse Robinhood
Taken money from the Poor and giving it to the Rich
I get 5% Cash Back on my Discover Card.... They get that cash back money from the poor fucks that get charged with the interest rates because they cant pay their bills then they give it to me for paying on time. Hence Reverse Robinhood Money goes from poor to Rich instead of Rich to Poor
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Reverse%20Robinhood
What is the Robin Hood Effect?
Robin Hood effect is when the less well-off gain economically at the expense of the better-off. The Robin Hood effect gets its name from the Anglo-Saxon folkloric outlaw Robin Hood, who, according to legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor. A reverse Robin Hood effect occurs when the better-off gain at the expense of the less well-off.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/robin-hood-effect.asp
Pity the tragic billionaire. Richard Branson has revealed that while he might be worth almost £5bn, he hardly ever picks up the bill when he eats out. The Virgin Group founder told the Australian website news.com.au that his cash is often rejected by the owners of his favourite restaurants around the world.
"Obviously, if you're in that lucky position where you can afford to pick up the bill, you should do it," he said. "But one of the bizarre things about being successful and making money is the amount of times restaurants will say: 'Oh, don't worry, Richard, we don't expect you to pay.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/16/richard-branson-and-the-reverse-robin-hood-why-do-companies-lavish-gifts-on-the-rich
trickledown economics
Trickle-down economics, also called trickle-down theory, refers to the economic proposition that taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society should be reduced as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. In recent history, the term has been used by critics of supply-side economic policies, such as "Reaganomics". Whereas general supply-side theory favors lowering taxes overall, trickle-down theory more specifically targets taxes on the upper end of the economic spectrum.[1][2]
The term "trickle-down" originated as a joke by humorist Will Rogers and today is often used to criticize economic policies that favor the wealthy or privileged while being framed as good for the average citizen. David Stockman, who as Ronald Reagan's budget director championed Reagan's tax cuts at first, later became critical of them and told journalist William Greider that "supply-side economics" is the trickle-down idea:[3][4]
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.
— David Stockman, The Atlantic
Political opponents of the Reagan administration soon seized on this language in an effort to brand the administration as caring only about the wealthy.[citation needed] Some studies suggest a link between trickle-down economics and reduced growth.[5][6] Trickle-down economics has been widely criticized, particularly by left-wing, centre-left and moderate politicians and economists, but also some right-wing politicians.
A 2019 study in the Journal of Political Economy found, contrary to trickle-down theory, that "the positive relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups and that the effect of tax cuts for the top 10 percent on employment growth is small."[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_rising_tide_lifts_all_boats
billionaire spending trends
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-billionaires-spend-their-money-on-2018-9?r=US&IR=T
https://flowingdata.com/2020/02/10/billionaires-spending-scaled-to-your-net-worth/
https://www.wealthx.com/intelligence-centre/exclusive-content/2019/billionaire-halo-effect/
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0412/the-everyday-lives-of-frugal-billionaires.aspx
The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C.-based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and United States Department of the Treasury.[1] The term was first used in 1989 by English economist John Williamson.[2] The prescriptions encompassed policies in such areas as macroeconomic stabilization, economic opening with respect to both trade and investment, and the expansion of market forces within the domestic economy.
Subsequent to Williamson's use of the terminology, and despite his emphatic opposition, the phrase Washington Consensus has come to be used fairly widely in a second, broader sense, to refer to a more general orientation towards a strongly market-based approach (sometimes described as market fundamentalism or neoliberalism). In emphasizing the magnitude of the difference between the two alternative definitions, Williamson has argued (see § Origins of policy agenda and § Broad sense below) that his ten original, narrowly defined prescriptions have largely acquired the status of "motherhood and apple pie" (i.e., are broadly taken for granted), whereas the subsequent broader definition, representing a form of neoliberal manifesto, "never enjoyed a consensus [in Washington] or anywhere much else" and can reasonably be said to be dead.
Discussion of the Washington Consensus has long been contentious. Partly this reflects a lack of agreement over what is meant by the term, but there are also substantive differences over the merits and consequences of the policy prescriptions involved. Some critics take issue with the original Consensus's emphasis on the opening of developing countries to global markets, and/or with what they see as an excessive focus on strengthening the influence of domestic market forces, arguably at the expense of key functions of the state. For other commentators, the issue is more what is missing, including such areas as institution-building and targeted efforts to improve opportunities for the weakest in society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
daily schedule jeff bezos
The Daily Schedules of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey and Other Famous Business Billionaires
https://www.entrepreneur.com/slideshow/325814
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/billionaire-jeff-bezos-shares-the-daily-routine-he-uses-to-succeed.html
https://letsreachsuccess.com/jeff-bezos-morning-routine/
https://medium.com/@michaeljosephbonnell/the-morning-routine-of-jeff-bezos-that-helps-set-him-up-for-success-55eb362549b8
money makes happiness survey
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/05/can-money-buy-happiness-debate-study-on-success.html
https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/will-10-million-make-you-happier-harvard-says-yes-if-you-make-it-yourself-give-it-away.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/money-can-buy-happiness/2020/07/01/3c2fc554-bb5a-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html
A large analysis published in the journal Nature Human Behavior used data from the Gallup World Poll, a survey of more than 1.7 million people from 164 countries, to put a price on optimal emotional well-being: between $60,000 and $75,000 a year. That aligns with past research on the topic, which found that people are happiest when they make about $75,000 a year.
But while that may be the sweet spot for feeling positive emotions on a day-to-day basis, the researchers found that a higher figure — $95,000 — is ideal for "life evaluation," which takes into account long-term goals, peer comparisons and other macro-level metrics. Check out our investing article, to take steps towards growing your current cash.
The researchers, from Purdue University, also found that it may be possible to make too much money, as far as happiness is concerned. They observed declines in emotional well-being and life satisfaction after the $95,000 mark, perhaps because being wealthy — past the point required for daily comfort and purchasing power, at least — can lead to unhealthy social comparisons and unfulfilling material pursuits.
Still, the findings don't mean that getting a huge raise won't lead to individual satisfaction: It simply suggests, according to the researchers, that a group of people making $200,000 a year is likely no happier than a group of people making $95,000. The well-documented "hedonic treadmill" phenomenon also suggests that people adjust relatively quickly to their newly flush bank accounts, with happiness leveling back off over time.
https://money.com/ideal-income-study/
https://reason.com/2020/07/03/more-money-does-buy-more-happiness-says-study/
- one strange thing coming up over and over again for me is that ~1% figure? Roughly about ~1% in the millionaire class? Strange that it fits so neatly over the income curve? It would make sense if they believe the managing people is like other services? Namely, for x people you need y managers? It would make sense over time how things have worked in the corporate world as well as public service as well?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
billionaire per capita per country
Regions by number of millionaires
List by Credit Suisse (2019)[2]
Rank Region Number of millionaires
(thousands) Share of millionaires
(in % of adult population)
- World 46,792 0.9
1 Northern America 19,946 7.3
2 Europe 13,290 2.3
3 Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India) 7,505 0.6
4 China 4,447 0.4
5 India 759 0.1
6 Latin America 673 0.2
7 Africa 171 0.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_millionaires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_billionaires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement

- ensure that your people you favour don't die early? This includes better access to healthcare and dodgy war drafts?

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1786205606313967395/5915419212740700438

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/11/china-background-economic-warfare-and.html

war draft dodgers list

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_evasion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_evasion_in_the_Vietnam_War

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gladiator+scene

Maximus and Commodus Epic Scene - Gladiator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfTc-q93lE

life expectancy 600ad

https://www.verywellhealth.com/longevity-throughout-history-2224054

Discussions about life expectancy often involve how it has improved over time. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy for men in 1907 was 45.6 years; by 1957 it rose to 66.4; in 2007 it reached 75.5. Unlike the most recent increase in life expectancy (which was attributable largely to a decline in half of the leading causes of death including heart disease, homicide, and influenza), the increase in life expectancy between 1907 and 2007 was largely due to a decreasing infant mortality rate, which was 9.99 percent in 1907; 2.63 percent in 1957; and 0.68 percent in 2007.

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Again, the high infant mortality rate skews the "life expectancy" dramatically downward. If a couple has two children and one of them dies in childbirth while the other lives to be 90, stating that on average the couple's children lived to be 45 is statistically accurate but meaningless. Claiming a low average age of death due to high infant mortality is not the same as claiming that the average person in that population will die at that age.

Of course, infant mortality is only one of many factors that influence life expectancy, including medicine, crime, and workplace safety. But when it is calculated in, it often creates confusion and myths.

When Socrates died at the age of 70 around 399 B.C., he did not die of old age but instead by execution. It is ironic that ancient Greeks lived into their 70s and older, while more than 2,000 years later modern Americans aren't living much longer. 

https://www.livescience.com/10569-human-lifespans-constant-2-000-years.html

The age structure of ancient populations is a matter of great interest within anthropology and archaeology. Some think we can draw many conclusions from skeletal samples; others are more cautious in their application of models to the past. But there’s no doubt that Romans, Egyptians, and Greeks were dropping dead at age 30, 40, 50 and 60 – at much higher age-specific mortality rates than today. Estimating the overall age profile is difficult and requires models. But testing the “Bad Science” assertion is much easier – if human lifespan had really not changed in 2000 years, then 35-year-olds shouldn’t have left their skeletons very often in the Roman catacombs. Unfortunately (for them), we find those 35-year-old bodies. A rough estimate (gleaned from tomb inscriptions that give ages) is that half of Romans who lived to age 15 – and therefore escaped juvenile mortality – were dead before age 45.

That leaves us with one remaining issue – the maximum lifespan. This statistic really hasn’t changed very much in the last 50 years – the oldest-living humans in 1960 were between 110 and 115; that’s how old the record-holders are today. Only a handful of people have, to our knowledge, ever lived longer.

So in this respect, it may seem reasonable to say that the human lifespan has been fairly constant. But I would challenge even that assertion. For one thing, the maximum lifespan just isn’t very relevant to the population. Only a tiny fraction of people today survive to age 100. That maximum lifespan may tell us something about human biological systems, but what really matters to demography are age-specific mortality rates across adulthood – the full range of times when most people die.

More important, we don’t have a clue what the maximum lifespan may have been 200, 500, or 2000 years ago. Such a tiny fraction of people make it above age 100 today that we could hardly expect to find any of them at all from skeletal samples. Nor can we expect accurate ages from historical records – Methuseleh, anyone? It seems reasonable to say that the maximum lifespan, at some point in human history, was increased by sedentism, nursing care, stable food availability, and other cultural innovations. With higher infant, juvenile, and adult mortality, even those with perfect genes would be a lot less likely to get the chance to live to extreme ages. But in skeletal terms, at least, the hypothesis may not be testable.

In every way we can measure, human lifespans are longer today than in the immediate past, and longer today than they were 2000 years ago. Infant and juvenile mortality do make a difference – especially if we use “life expectancy at birth” as the statistic – but age-specific mortality rates in adults really have reduced substantially.

That’s a good thing!

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/life_history/age-specific-mortality-lifespan-bad-science-2009.html

how did ancient greeks live so long

Contrary to the commonly held belief that in antiquity and as late as 1700 A.D. normal lifespan was about 35 years, there are indications that the ancient Greeks lived longer. In a study of all men of renown, living in the 5th and 4th century in Greece, we identified 83 whose date of birth and death have been recorded with certainty. Their mean +/- SD and median lengths of life were found to be 71.3+/-13.4 and 70 years, respectively. Although this cohort cannot be considered as representative of the general population, it is however indicative of a long length of life in classical Greece. Good living conditions and a mild climate at the time of intellectual and artistic excellence, the use of slaves for hard work, an animated social life in which the aged actively participated and, not least of all, the respect that aged people were accorded by the younger, all favored a longer length of life and eugeria (happy aging) or eulongevity in classical Greece.

The length of life and eugeria in classical Greece

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/

People could very easily reach the age 60–70. Some lived even more. For example Sophocles, an ancient play writer, lived to see himself become 93 years old. People don’t know or seem to forget that Ancient Greeks were also pioneers in medical fields, with biggest of them all Hippocrates “Father of Medicine” whose practices are still applied today.

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-average-age-in-ancient-Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths

- it's really obvious that the elite conduct a lot of experiments on the rest of the population. This includes human experimentation? We know that excess population growth is a problem but if you examine the data carefully most of the gains in population control seem to have been via endocrine system disruption (experiment via foodchain), abortions, etc...

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/11/medical-corruption-and-industrial.html

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/24/toxic-america-sperm-counts-plastics-research
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world/
 In the early 1970s, men had, on average, 99 million sperm per milliliter of semen. By 2011, that number had dropped to 47 million per milliliter. So with every passing year, men's sperm count dropped by about 1 percent "with no evidence of a 'leveling off' in recent years," the study authors warned.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/9/17/17841518/low-sperm-count-semen-male-fertility
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sperm-count-dropping-in-western-world/
Researchers in Israel pooled data from almost 200 studies of male fertility and found that sperm counts among men in high-income countries, including Australia, have dropped by about 60% in the past four decades.
It is not yet possible to say whether this will impact on natural conception rates but it is concerning because lower sperm counts are related to poorer general health. Experts believe that increasing rates of obesity and exposure to environmental chemicals may be reasons for declining sperm counts.
Health professionals suggest that men should aim to be in the healthy weight range, eat plenty of good nutritious food such as fish, nuts, and fresh fruit and vegetables and reduce their intake of sugary and fatty foods to improve general health and sperm health. Men who combine a healthy diet with regular physical exercise should find their overall health and sperm count are likely to improve. And for those who smoke, quitting will boost fertility!
While exposure to chemicals is inevitable in modern life, limiting exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), a class of chemicals which can affect sperm, will also help reduce the risk of low sperm count.
https://www.yourfertility.org.au/latest-news/declining-sperm-counts-and-how-trend-can-be-reversed
endocrine disruptors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm
diseases which reduce fertility
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https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Conditions-That-Affect-Fertility
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/infertility/symptoms-causes/syc-20354317

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pilot-error-led-to-fatal-fighter-jet-crash-in-june-pentagon-report-finds/ar-BB1bi8Fr
- latest in animal news
Jacksonville animal sanctuary provides lessons in compassion
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/business/article247352944.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/28/something-weird-is-going-on-with-my-neighbours-cat
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/11/25/tapanuli-orangutan-released-after-entering-village-in-search-of-food.html
https://www.dw.com/en/first-pets-famous-presidential-companions/g-55772264
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/03/on-the-first-day-of-australian-family-finds-live-koala-in-their-christmas-tree
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/the-quokkas-guide-to-happiness/news-story/bcb3eeb041a60881cf5606fdbb9a18a7
https://bangordailynews.com/2020/11/27/outdoors/this-moose-caught-on-a-trail-cam-has-its-eye-on-you/
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/pets/abandoned-dog-who-could-only-understand-german-learns-english-to-find-new-home/news-story/337c494bf4dfdfb993f759e63060237c
- latest in music and entertainment
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2020/11/09/how-nurture-your-own-bush-food-garden
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-nurse-shares-brutal-before-and-after-photo/news-story/5413700b3ec3d593f6bd7ff37f2f49f2
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/hook-ups-break-ups/phil-collins-exwifes-outrageous-claims-cut-from-lawsuit-in-messy-split/news-story/490aaa41dac45255b13a8599a95f90a4
https://lifewithoutandy.com/news/news/homophobic-politician-caught-25-man-orgy-belgium/
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2020/11/08/super-easy-diwali-sweet-youll-want-make-all-year-round
https://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/gulab-jamun-sticky-saffron-flavoured-dumplings
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-27/australian-football-continues-to-disenfranchise-its-participants/12923850
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/03/up-to-bowlers-to-adapt-to-innovative-shot-making-says-big-hitting-glenn-maxwell
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/ive-made-17-million-during-lockdown-by-talking-dirty-to-men-in-a-british-accent/news-story/ae446e951393402b962ef53b658c9b7c
https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/travel/where-to-find-victorias-pink-lakes
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/mums-simple-woolworths-cake-hack-goes-viral/news-story/7968d38ba9e05c7423be81d8b9f06753
https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/football-fans-share-horror-match-day-meals-including-one-disgusting-sausage/news-story/843214630e399048549a4aa8d7968c17
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/dec/15/lobsters-are-being-sold-for-just-20-each-in-australia-heres-how-to-cook-one
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/give-golf-the-boot-there-s-no-space-for-a-sport-that-offers-so-little-to-so-few-20201213-p56n3p.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/06/kibiwott-kandie-breaks-58-minutes-for-half-marathon-wearing-new-shoe-technology
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/15-celebrities-you-might-not-know-are-jewish/ar-BB1bP8Wo?pfr=1
https://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/top-12-weird-facts-about-your-favourite-australian-foods/news-story/45fa94628015b69bb6b80bce3c20d17a
https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/news/where-are-aussie-idol-stars-now/ar-BB1bGMPg?viewall=true
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/dad-breaks-down-in-tears-after-reading-sons-letter-to-santa/news-story/2fbc605c2289cdd2e33369b04c047e44
- always maintain a power imbalance. Notice over time the worker/organised unions have been wiped out in most countries? Note, also that if you use MMT you'll just lock in inequality over time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
The consensus as originally stated by Williamson included ten broad sets of relatively specific policy recommendations:[1]
Fiscal policy discipline, with avoidance of large fiscal deficits relative to GDP;
Redirection of public spending from subsidies ("especially indiscriminate subsidies") toward broad-based provision of key pro-growth, pro-poor services like primary education, primary health care and infrastructure investment;
Tax reform, broadening the tax base and adopting moderate marginal tax rates;
Interest rates that are market determined and positive (but moderate) in real terms;
Competitive exchange rates;
Trade liberalization: liberalization of imports, with particular emphasis on elimination of quantitative restrictions (licensing, etc.); any trade protection to be provided by low and relatively uniform tariffs;
Liberalization of inward foreign direct investment;
Privatization of state enterprises;
Deregulation: abolition of regulations that impede market entry or restrict competition, except for those justified on safety, environmental and consumer protection grounds, and prudential oversight of financial institutions;
Legal security for property rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
happiness recruitment industry statistics
#15 Bad hire statistics
What are the chances you'll hire the wrong person in 2020? And what will it cost you?
Nearly three in four employers (74%) say they've hired the wrong person for a position.
Source: Career Builder
The average cost of one bad hire is nearly $15,000!
Source: Career Builder
https://www.talentlyft.com/en/blog/article/364/top-50-hiring-and-recruitment-statistics-for-2020
satisfaction recruitment industry statistics
Talent Acquisition Statistics
30.9% of employers said receiving too many irrelevant applicants was their number one challenge when recruiting through an online job board, website, or community, while 22.6% cited receiving too many underqualified applicants.
5.8% of employers said being ghosted by candidates who don't show up for interviews was their most pressing recruiting challenge.
52.5% of employers said they first consult a general job board when posting jobs (aside from their company website).
53.7% of employers who cited receiving too many irrelevant or underqualified applicants as their top online recruiting challenge prioritized using a general job board. Just 14.7% of those employers prioritized using an industry-specific job board.
64.2% of small businesses said too many unqualified applicants apply for their jobs, while 55.3% experienced a low volume of applicants per job opening.
Sources: State of Online Recruiting Report 2019 and Small Business Hiring Challenges for 2020
...
Baby Boomer Job Seeker Statistics
52.5% of baby boomers said they have felt discriminated against by an employer due to their age.
82.9% of baby boomers felt either "very qualified" or "overqualified" for the jobs for which they were applying.
69.9% of baby boomers who felt overqualified when applying for jobs believe they've been subject to ageism.
44.5% of baby boomers believed their generation is unfairly stereotyped by today's employers.
73.5% of baby boomers said a fair salary/compensation was their most desired workplace offering.
Source: Baby Boomers: The Missing Link in Addressing the Talent Shortage
https://www.ihire.com/blog/recruiting-talent-acquisition-statistics-2020
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/08/exclusive-gerard-minack-mmt-the-new-normal-get-over-it/
- ensure that the same systemic and power structures are maintained over time even if they have officially disappeared? This includes slavery, colonialism, imperialism, etc...
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/06/history-of-hate-and-supremacy-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/education-or-indoctrination-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/05/mexican-drug-cartel-background-random.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/03/religion-vs-uswestern-leadership-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/is-society-filtering-for-fairnessmerit.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/is-western-leadership-required-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/08/neo-colonialism-and-neo-liberalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/shadow-government-key-players-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/it-business-startup-resources-random.html

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- In her garage among spools of candy-coloured thread, Ghet Ky sits, focused, at her sewing machine.
She's a garment worker who sews from home — also known as an "outworker" — and her garage has been her workplace for the past 25 years since she migrated from Vietnam.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, one of her employers asked her to make face masks, offering to pay her 80 cents per mask.
When she did the maths, it came to about $7 per hour, or about a third of the minimum hourly wage of $20.41.
Ms Ky said she received the order on a Friday and the face masks were needed by Monday.
"I texted him ... because I know what is the minimum wage for a basic skill, not for my skill, but basic skill for anyone new to the industry," Ms Ky told the ABC.
"You would spend more than 12 hours a day working, your electricity costs, and on top of that [it was the] weekend — you didn't have time for your family."
A woman sewing a cloth with a sewing machine from her garage at her home.
She told him that based on her production cost calculation and the amount of time it would take, $2.50 to $3 per mask was a more reasonable price.
Ms Ky said she ended up making 300 facemasks on that weekend and the employer agreed to pay the amount she asked for.
But after that, he sought out other workers to make the rest of the masks at a cheaper cost.
"I couldn't compete with the price. Because if I did compete [with] the price, I would be really making a huge loss," she said, saying others may settle for 20 or 50 cents less.
In such a competitive environment, Ms Ky said some employers were "taking advantage".
"You don't have the protections when you're working from home," she said.
"You take what's given and sometimes the price is whatever they decide."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-25/garment-homeworkers-urged-to-speak-up-about-their-working-rights/12900942
- Keeping the industry strong has been a priority for China's central government: in 2013, President Xi Jinping urged Chinese mariners to "build bigger ships and venture even farther and catch bigger fish".
Beijing says its distant water fishing fleet numbers around 2,500 ships, but one study claimed it could have as many as 17,000 boats trawling the world's oceans. The US, by comparison, has just 300 distant water vessels.
China is a fisheries superpower: according to the UN, it consumes around 36 per cent of total global fish production, and hauls in 15.2 million tonnes of marine life a year, or 20 per cent of the world's entire annual catch.
Its fleets, including those in the Galapagos, are vast and complex.
There are trawlers, refuelling ships, freezer and transport vessels that allow them to continue operating without going to port for months at a time, sometimes longer.
Ian Urbina, the author of Outlaw Ocean, has spent years writing about fishing on the high seas and says while illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU fishing) was an issue worldwide, China is unique.
"More than any other fishing fleet in the world, [China] travels farther, stays at sea longer, pulls up more fish than anyone, and is also more routinely invading national waters," he said.
It's unsurprising then that China ranks number one on the IUU fishing index.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-19/how-china-is-plundering-the-worlds-oceans/12971422
- Ashlee Vance writes in the book that the deal was cancelled after a huge sales drive paid off. Tesla had sealed enough Model S orders to rescue its finances, partly by Musk turning staff from design, engineering, finance and other departments out of their offices to clinch sales, telling them: "If we don't deliver these cars, we are fucked."
Apple's automotive efforts, known as Project Titan, have proceeded unevenly since 2014 when it first started to design its own vehicle from scratch. Reports this week said the car might eventually be built by an outside manufacturing partner.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/23/elon-musk-i-tried-to-sell-tesla-to-apple
- Blake, a member of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became a communist while serving as a prisoner of war in Korea. In 1953 Blake informed Soviet intelligence of US and British plans to build a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone of Berlin to surveil landline communications at the Soviet Army headquarters. The Soviets unearthed the tunnel two years later, after carrying out an elaborate operation in which they fed western spies misinformation. The intelligence leak and the Soviet operation was only discovered by MI6 after Blake was exposed as a double agent, nearly ten years later.
https://www.rt.com/russia/510786-george-blake-soviet-double-agent-dies/
- Hobart City Mission CEO John Stubley said when the Federal Government first announced COVID-19 support, many who had been doing it tough had finally enough to buy food.
He said the first signs that was about to change were already there.
"We've seen a gradual increase in people living on government support coming back to us, needing assistance," he said.
"Particularly in the last month, with the winding back of the JobSeeker allowance from around $1,100 a fortnight to $800, we've seen a 50 per cent increase in people approaching us for emergency assistance."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/hamlet-cafe-mental-illness-food-people-in-need-covid/12896774
Finally, we need to take the discussion of the sinews of empire beyond the realm of guns and chests of opium – into the realm of ideas and culture. What role did 'Imperial cultures' play? What ideas, for instance, made Empire seem acceptable to British and French elites? The works of Edward Said and Frantz Fanon have suggested that European culture and science were used to keep colonised people subordinated, not just militarily or economically shackled, but with their very thoughts reprogrammed. By contrast, how far could the colonised both thrive by adopting metropolitan models, and also sometimes challenge them and assert agency?  In short, how far did empires rest on non-military mechanisms? How far were empires constructions of the mind – of schools, languages, maps, novels and societies – as well as of the sword.
No brief discussion could do more than scratch the surface of how empire is 'done', and systems of power kept in being. But we do believe that when added to the issue of communications systems discussed above, the four themes we have just discussed – military, economic, bureaucratic and cultural – give you the most important four ways of analysing the sinews of empire. If you can at least start to look for and ask informed questions about the different ways these sinews of power are organised, and embedded in institutions, when you meet new imperial situations, this introduction will have been worthwhile.
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/how-do-empires-work/content-section-5
- Ms Kim said from her seven years of working as an analyst at the CIA, it's equipped with a whole gamut of people with unique skills, not just operatives.
She said she thought the beauty and value of intelligence — whether propaganda or other operations, is that "we use all elements of human capabilities and faculties to effect change".
"Whether that's good or bad, I think, is up for debate," she said.
For Mr Sokoloff, "storytelling is fundamental".
"Just stating the facts or trying to convince people without telling them stories is a very short-term solution," he said.
"As soon as there is a story, and a story you believe and a story you like ... it kind of creates a narrative in your mind, and that really cements behaviour."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-24/propaganda-operation-christmas-leaflet-north-korea-cia-pop-song/12473366