MKULTRA TECH SEC BLOG: June 2023

Monday, June 12, 2023

Zuckerberg Admits Censoring True Information For Establishment Undermined Trust

Meta was one of the biggest censors of truthful Covid information.

In an interview with the Lex Fridman Podcast, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, dived into the convoluted waters of content censorship and its consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Censorship Act: Navigating the tightrope of content censorship is “really tricky,” according to Zuckerberg. He highlighted a dilemma where content might be false, “but may not be harmful, so it’s like, alright, are you going to censor someone for just being wrong, if there’s no kind of harm implication of what they’re doing?’”

Establishment Pressures: In the early days of the pandemic, Zuckerberg recalls how the “establishment” was scrambling and gave platforms, like Meta, mixed signals. He elaborated, “Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier on in the pandemic, where there were real health implications, but there hadn’t been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions, and, unfortunately, I think a lot of the establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts.”

Looking Back: The Meta CEO expressed concern about the establishment pushing platforms to enforce and censor information, which, upon reflection, “ended up being more debatable or true.”

Credibility at Stake: The hasty calls for censorship based on unsteady data played a role in shaking the foundations of trust in the scientific community. “It really undermines trust,” Zuckerberg pointed out.

Nuance in Danger: Adding to the complexity, Zuckerberg concurred with Fridman on the possibility of depth and nuance in information being “lost” in the sea of content moderation dictated by institutions and governments.

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Don't shed a tear for the 'crypto' industry, a hype chasing scammer's paradise

Crypto is not Bitcoin, but fiat on steroids.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently engaging in a sweeping crackdown on the “crypto” world, and as a passionate bitcoiner, I honestly couldn’t care less about it.

Let me explain.

In what some in the “crypto” world are referring to as Operation Chokepoint 2.0, the SEC appears motivated to broadly take action against “crypto” enterprises with branches in the United States, starting with the popular exchanges that allow for easy access to the endless array of tokens that are available through these businesses.

If this industry was providing any value to righteous individuals and our greater society, it would certainly be a reason for concern. But that isn’t the case whatsoever. In fact, the crypto industry exists to pick the pockets of the desperate and/or naive retail buyer to the benefit of a handful of ruthlessly deceitful, predatory venture capital fund swindlers.

A broken clock is right twice a day, as they say, and the SEC, which I obviously won’t pretend is some kind of righteous institution, is in fact doing us all a favor by wreaking havoc upon this industry. Crypto is not so much an industry as it is a scammer’s paradise, because there are no real innovations in crypto, only Potemkin villages, Rube Goldberg marketing machines, convoluted buzzwords, and other technobabble rearrangements that appear from afar as novel, but better resemble the contents of Al Capone’s vault.

The “crypto” industry made a fortune by riding the coattails of bitcoin, a truly novel and groundbreaking innovation, to pursue their scams. In the process of defrauding the public, the crypto space muddied the conversation around the amazing advancement to humanity that is bitcoin in the process, adding roadblocks to the adoption of an asset that has the potential to bolster freedom and dramatically improve quality of life worldwide.

Contrary to popular belief, “crypto” assets largely do not share some or any of the properties of bitcoin. It is nothing more than the fiat system on steroids. The vast majority of crypto tokens have an incredibly centralized command structure and resemble nothing close to the monetary properties of bitcoin other than the fact that both are accessible via the internet. Sure, the SEC or other government agencies could decide to “go after” Bitcoin (even though SEC chair Gary Gensler has made it clear that Bitcoin is not a security), but Bitcoin is globally distributed and well positioned to withstand and even thrive long term from such an attack.

Binance and Coinbase, two major institutions that are currently being targeted by the SEC, indeed deserve recognition for their efforts to bring bitcoin adoption to the world. For several years, these exchanges, among others, broke new ground by facilitating a much easier and more transparent means to purchase and store bitcoin in an expedited fashion.

But then they got greedy, and proceeded to become partners to a massive racket.

These aren’t the same institutions that they were in the mid 2010s, when they only made a handful of assets available to the public.

I highly encourage you to read Swan Bitcoin (former sponsor of The Dossier) CEO Cory Klippsten’s Twitter thread about Coinbase, which describes the current business model adopted by the predominant global "crypto” exchanges.

What Coinbase and Binance, among others, have been doing for many years now, is effectively using their loyal retail customers as exit liquidity for their billionaire venture capital partners in the predatory scam coin marketing space.

A token listing on a major exchange opens up enormous liquidity for the creators of these vaporware assets. Once the scam coin manufacturers generate enough buying interest through fraudulent marketing practices and “the listing,” they proceed to sell the tokens they created, immediately abandoning the buzzword heavy “projects” they claimed would be the next big thing in “crypto.”

Now that their deceptive schemes are being noticed by regulators, many in the industry are jumping ship to “the Metaverse” and “AI.”

As former Tucker Carlson producer Gregg Re has demonstrated, these newfound AI brands are engaging in the very same unethical schemes they pursued when trying to dump their crypto tokens on retail.

Crypto has become a dirty word in the public's lexicon for the right reasons. The not so well kept secret about this space is that Sam Bankman Fried (FTX), Alex Mashinsky (Celsius), Do Kwon (Luna), and the rest of the high profile scammers in crypto land are not anomalies of their industry, but the *standard* for that industry, which has a seeming magnetic effect of accumulating the very worst of swindlers and grifters.

As a bitcoiner, I believe in the importance of the very ethical mission of separating money from state, and am well aware of the reality that the SEC is not exactly a fair arbitrator in financial regulatory disputes, to put it mildly. However, it’s not worth shedding a single tear for the “crypto” industry, because they didn’t shed a tear, but were high-fiving in smoke filled Silicon Valley rooms while using you as exit liquidity for their countless affinity scam projects.

Friday, June 9, 2023

Taliban successfully eradicates poppy cultivation: Report

Afghan poppy cultivation, which long provided most of the world’s heroin supply, flourished for decades due to US intervention in the country

Toor Khan (right) razing a poppy field to the ground along with fellow Taliban members. (Photo Credit BBC)

The Taliban government of Afghanistan has carried out “truly unprecedented reductions in poppy cultivation” in 2023, according to a new analysis published by Alcis, a UK-based geographic information services firm specializing in geospatial data collection, statistical analysis and visualization.

The poppy reduction followed a ban on drugs in Afghanistan issued in April 2022 by Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah, only seven months after the Islamic movement took power following the August 2021 US military withdrawal from the country.

Alcis reports that an effective ban on poppy cultivation is in place and that opium production in 2023 will be negligible compared to 2022. High resolution imagery analyzed by the firm shows that in the province of Helmand, poppy cultivation was reduced from 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023. This amounts to the largest reduction in poppy cultivation ever recorded in the country, including after the Taliban banned poppy production in 2000, one year before losing power following the 2001 US invasion.

As a result, wheat cultivation now dominates provinces in the south and southwest, where some 80% of Afghanistan’s total poppy crop had previously been grown.

The Taliban announced the ban on poppy cultivation in April 2022, but allowed the harvest of the poppy crop planted in the fall of 2021, fearing that banning or destroying it so close to the harvest season and after farmers had invested considerable time and resources in their poppy fields would provoke widespread unrest.

The Taliban then banned the planting of new poppy crops moving forward and destroyed any poppy fields planted after that time in violation of the ban.

Over the course of the summer of 2022, the Taliban also targeted the methamphetamine industry by destroying the ephedra crop and ephedrine labs across the country.

These findings were confirmed by journalists from the BBC, who traveled to Afghanistan this month while embedded with Taliban members destroying remaining poppy fields with sticks.

The BBC noted that the loss of supply of Afghan heroin may lead to increases in the “synthetic drugs, which can be far more nasty than opium,” among US and European drug users.

The BBC noted further that “opium was also grown freely in areas controlled by the US-backed former Afghan regime, something the BBC witnessed prior to the Taliban takeover in 2021.”

Indeed, the heroin trade has played a role in the conflicts plaguing the war-torn country since the 1970s.

In the late 1970s and in the 1980s, the CIA relied on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) and its Afghan mujahideen clients to wage war against the Soviet-backed Afghan government, and against Soviet forces which occupied the country in support of the government.

According to historian Alfred McCoy, the ISI, and mujahideen soon became key players in the burgeoning cross-border opium traffic.

McCoy writes that “The CIA looked the other way while Afghanistan’s opium production grew from about 100 tonnes annually in the 1970s to 2,000 tonnes by 1991. In 1979 and 1980, just as the CIA effort was beginning to ramp up, a network of heroin laboratories opened along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. That region soon became the world’s largest heroin producer. By 1984, it supplied a staggering 60% of the US market and 80% of the European.”

McCoy writes further that, “Caravans carrying CIA arms into that region for the resistance often returned to Pakistan loaded down with opium – sometimes, reported the New York Times, ‘with the assent of Pakistani or American intelligence officers who supported the resistance.’”

As reporting from journalist Gary Webb showed, the CIA was transporting weapons by plane to its proxy army in Nicaragua, the Contras, while the planes returned to the US loaded with cocaine, during this same period. Declassified US government documents later acknowledged that US officials relied on the drug trade to fund arms purchases for the Contras.

The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989 was followed by years of chaos as warlords competed for control of the country. In 1996, the Taliban came to power and imposed a measure of order on the country. In 2000, the Islamic movement banned poppy production.

However, US forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 and quickly toppled the Taliban. Poppy cultivation and the heroin trade flourished.

In 2004, Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, reported that opium cultivation increased by two-thirds that year and had spread to all 32 provinces, “making narcotics the main engine of economic growth” in the country.

In 2010, a growing Taliban insurgency prompted President Obama to launch his Afghan surge, which sent an additional 17,000 US troops to the country. The surge was launched at Marja, a remote market town in Helmand province.

Alfred McCoy writes that, “As waves of helicopters descended on its outskirts spitting up clouds of dust, hundreds of marines sprinted through fields of sprouting opium poppies toward the village’s mud-walled compounds. Though their targets were the local Taliban guerrillas, the marines were, in fact, occupying one of the capitals of the global heroin trade.”

McCoy noted further that the US-backed “Afghan army seemed to be losing a war that was now driven – in ways that eluded most observers – by a battle for control of the country’s opium profits. In Helmand province, both Taliban rebels and provincial officials are locked in a struggle for control of the lucrative drug traffic.”

As Simon Spedding of the University of South Australia observed, “The simple facts are that opium production was high under the US-influenced government of Afghanistan of the 1970s, decreased 10-fold by 2001 under the Taliban, and then increased 30-fold and more under the US to the same level as in the 1970s … These are facts, whereas the idea that the CIA runs opium from Afghanistan would be a conspiracy theory—unless, you thought about the United Nations statistics or happened to have been to Afghanistan.”

WEF document calls for limiting ‘private car use,’ drastic reduction in the number of cars by 2050

The globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) is encouraging cities to “contain growth of private car use” and aims to drastically reduce the number of cars by 2050, according to a recently published white paper. The document relies on the usual falsified climate change data and dishonest models and ignores the looming population collapse which many have been warning the world is facing.

The briefing paper titled “The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility” was published by the WEF in collaboration with Visa in May 2023.

The document advocates for increased “shared, electric, connected and automated (SEAM) transport modes and a shift to more compact cities” in order to reduce the number of cars by 2050 to 500 million worldwide and drastically reduce carbon emissions.

“No one city, or one company, can achieve this vision alone,” the paper reads. “Through strong public-private collaboration, we can find innovative, impactful, and context-sensitive solutions for mobility to enable a sustainable future for cities.”

According to carsMetric, there are currently over 1.45 billion cars in the world, and the WEF projects that number to go up to 2.1 billion by 2050 if we remain on the current trajectory. A reduction to 500 million cars would therefore present a reduction of the number of cars by over 75%.

The WEF recently ran a trial of its Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool and chose Buenos Aires, Argentina, Curitiba, Cota Rica, and Singapore as trial cities.

READ: World Economic Forum’s ‘15-minute cities’ are a godless inversion of the Christian order

The white paper by the WEF names containing “the growth of private car use by boosting public transport, cycling, and shared mobility services” as a major “ambition area” for Buenos Aires.

“The capital of Argentina is seeking to enhance sustainable mobility to keep people moving while offering more connected, integrated transport,” the paper states.

The city is also “embracing new solutions to reduce private car dependency and provide a well-integrated, multimodal transport system,” according to the WEF.

It has become apparent that the unelected elites at the WEF and other globalist organizations not only seek to replace gas-powered cars with electric cars, but to radically reduce private car ownership in general.

Journalist Tim Hinchliffe, editor of The Sociable, pointed out that “[t]he Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool white paper gives further credence to the WEF’s prediction that by 2030 ‘You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.’”

The "people" will be your children.
They have been/will be further indoctrinated to give up their rights.
See the 2022 Ontario Science Curriculum: 15 mentions of human caused climate change, which is not true.

I call for the complete elimination of the WEF, UN, WHO, climate change organizations, Davos meetings, and any related efforts by globalist elite by 2025.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Hands in pockets body language

Keeping your hands in your pockets is one of those body language gestures that can have multiple, seemingly contradictory meanings. In body language, the meaning of some gestures is straightforward. You only need to observe one or two gestures to reach a conclusion.

In other cases, such as the ‘hands in pockets’ gesture, you need to look at the context of the situation and accompanying gestures (gesture cluster) to reach a sound conclusion.

In this article, I’ll discuss what the ‘hands in pockets’ gesture and its variations mean. I’ll also give reasons behind the various meanings.

Hands in pockets meaning

First, we’ll eliminate the non-psychological reasons why people put their hands in their pockets. For example, feeling cold or checking your keys. Another example would be a situation where you have nothing better to do with your hands like when you’re waiting for someone.

We’re not concerned with these but you should keep them in mind.

Now, let’s look at the psychology of putting your hands in your pockets.

With body language gestures that are vague, ambiguous, and hard to interpret, it’s best to look at the opposite gesture. The meaning opposite to the meaning of the opposite gesture would be the meaning of the vague gesture.

So, to understand the mental state of a person with their hands in their pockets, ask yourself:

“What does it mean when someone doesn’t have their hands in their pockets?”

When you talk to someone who doesn’t have their hands in their pockets, they come across as open, trustworthy, and secure.

Showing your hands and moving your arms freely in social interactions signals openness and confidence in expressing yourself with your body.

Body language doesn’t lie. People who are open and confident naturally talk with their hands and bodies.

Not showing your hands by keeping them in your pockets sends the opposite signal. It indicates defensiveness and insecurity. It’s a ‘closed’ body language gesture. When you assume this gesture, you’re closing others off. You’re hiding yourself from others.

Retreating your hands in your pockets in a social context communicates:

“I don’t want to engage with you.”

Social anxiety

Social anxiety is probably the number one reason why someone would close themselves off from others.

If you’re socially anxious, you may have noticed that you hardly keep your hands in your pockets in a non-threatening situation (like your home). But when you go out, social anxiety kicks in, and you frequently find yourself with your hands in your pockets.

Having hands in pockets signals discomfort, and people can sense it, even if they can’t put a finger on it. When they interact with you, they’ll sense something is off.

To test this, see what happens the next time you’re having an open, friendly conversation with someone and suddenly put your hands in your pockets. Most likely, the conversation will die down.

Your closing off may trigger their closing off. They may put their hands in their pockets too, or only retreat from the conversation mentally.

An attempt to comfort

In body language, there’s a class of gestures called self-soothing gestures. When we’re anxious and nervous, we need to soothe ourselves physically. One way of doing it is by touching your face. Another is wringing your hands.

When you feel insecure and uncomfortable in a social situation, putting your hands in your pockets provides a sense of security and comfort, like retreating into a cave.

It communicates:

“I’m comfortable and relaxed.”

Some people observing you may buy into this and not realize that your comfort stems from discomfort.

Disengagement and disinterest

When we don’t want to engage, we’re usually not interested.

This lack of interest in engaging may stem from social anxiety, but it may also stem from confidence and arrogance.

If you think you’re better than those around you, you may cut them off and disengage by putting your hands in your pockets. It signals:

“I’m too good to engage with you.”

This is why people trying to look cool also assume this gesture. When you see someone posing for a photograph with their hands in their pockets, they’re communicating:

“I’m uninterested in you.”

“Whatever.”

“I’m only concerned with myself and how I look because I’m cool.”

When you see fans taking autographs from celebrities, who engages with whom and to what degree?

Of course, the fans engage more with the celebrity because they’re interested in the latter more than the latter is interested in the former. While the fans jump with joy, push themselves through the crowd, and wave many times at the celebrity, the latter just signs their pad and waves back maybe once or twice.

Imagine a fan approaching a celebrity with their hands in their pockets. Watching this, you may mistake the fan for some celebrity or authority figure. The fan reduces the power gap between a fan and a celebrity by lowering engagement. With hands in pockets, the fan communicates indifference.

I don’t know about you but we got scolded a lot in school if we talked to teachers (authority figures) with hands in our pockets.

If you care about the people around you and want to engage with them more, you can make much progress by simply taking your hands out of your pockets.

Variations and accompanying gestures

If you see someone with their hands in their pockets and are unsure about the meaning, look at the context, accompanying gestures, and variations of the gesture.

A common variation of the hands-in-pockets gesture is putting your thumbs in your pockets with your fingers out. This crotch display is usually assumed by men in the presence of women or other men they’re trying to threaten.

If a person has their fingers in their pockets with thumbs sticking out, it’s a gesture that signals high confidence. The thumb is the most powerful digit of the hand, and the thumb displays signal power.

Walking with hands in your pockets makes you look smaller. In body language, you make yourself physically smaller when you feel smaller.

A person who feels small, unconfident and insecure may also put their head down and have their shoulders hunched.

Keeping your hands in your pockets with relaxed shoulders and an upright chin amplifies the “I’m cool” signal.

When walking with hands in pockets, walking speed plays a key role. When walking speed is low, a person is probably relaxed. Think of walking slowly on a beach.

When walking speed is high, the person subconsciously tries to escape the situation because they feel uncomfortable.

Having one hand in the pocket is a partial attempt at disengagement. The person may be feeling partially uncomfortable. They may vacillate between wanting to connect (because they’re interested) and holding back (because they’re uncomfortable or want to look cool or both).

Walking with one hand in a pocket is a very dominant gesture. The person has freed one hand to engage while also retaining disengagement. The gesture signals:

“I want to engage but on my terms.”

“I run this place, and I’m not listening to you.”

Monday, June 5, 2023

How Hypnosis Works, According to Science

BY ELEANOR CUMMINS

APRIL 28, 2022 2:37 PM EDT

https://time.com/6171844/how-hypnosis-works/

When you think about hypnosis, what do you visualize? For many, it’s a clock-swinging magician or a comedy act that forces an unwitting volunteer to make embarrassing public admissions on stage.

But hypnosis has a surprisingly robust scientific framework. Clinical research has shown that it can help relieve pain and anxiety and aid smoking cessation, weight loss, and sleep. It can help children and adolescents better regulate their feelings and behaviors. Some people can even use “self-hypnosis” to manage stress, cope with life’s challenges, and improve their physical and emotional health.

Hypnosis creates “a non-judgmental immersive experience,” says Dr. David Spiegel, a Stanford University psychiatrist and leading researcher of hypnosis. It’s been used in various forms for centuries, but it wasn’t until 1843 that the Scottish surgeon Dr. James Braid popularized the term “hypnosis.” Braid’s central discovery—that concentration can guide the brain toward a more suggestible state—was and remains controversial. But physicians have continued to test and teach the technique over the centuries with great success, Spiegel says.

Today, a psychologist, psychiatrist, or other healthcare professional certified in hypnotherapy will first screen a potential client for their ability to be hypnotized using a validated suggestibility scale. (Not everyone is equally susceptible to hypnosis, but research has found that about two-thirds of adults are.) The hypnotherapist will talk with them about what sort of sensory experiences make them feel safe, like a lakeshore retreat or a beach vacation. Then, the hypnotherapist will conjure that imagery—focusing, for example, on the salt spray of the ocean, seagulls calling overhead, and sun-kissed skin—to help the person go deeper into the calming visualization. If done right, the patient’s physical surroundings will melt away.

The result is a powerful combination of dissociation, immersion, and openness to new experiences, which culminates in what was once called a “trance,” but which modern hypnotherapists simply refer to as a “hypnotic state.” It can be achieved in just a few minutes, Spiegel says.

Such scene-setting techniques can create the ideal stage for positive transformation, says Binghamton University psychology professor Steven Jay Lynn. During hypnosis, people are more open to the suggestions of the hypnotherapist, whether those ask the patient to detach themselves from a past painful experience or visualize a solution to their problem. For some people, these changes may be catalyzed in a one- or two-hour session. For others, hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis may be a regular part of their mental health care. “Hypnosis can modify consciousness in many ways,” Lynn says.

This state of deep relaxation isn’t particularly difficult for most people to dive into or emerge from. It’s similar to a “flow state,” Spiegel says, or an altered state of consciousness in which a person is so immersed in a given activity, their focus narrows and their sense of time shifts. It’s also reminiscent of what happens during meditation, except instead of training people to tune into the present moment, hypnosis makes them more receptive to suggestion. Like meditation practice, many people are capable of doing hypnosis on their own, Spiegel says. In 2020, he co-founded Reveri, a subscription-based self-hypnosis app that’s structured a lot like Calm or Headspace. A user can access recordings that guide them into a hypnotized state, after which they’re given suggestions or statements that lead them toward a goal the person selects before the session. “We do it all the time,” Spiegel says of entering and exiting these mental states, “but in hypnosis you do it more.”

Brain-imaging studies have helped to illuminate what happens inside the hypnotized brain, though much still remains a mystery. During hypnosis, activity in a brain region that helps people switch between tasks quiets down, Spiegel says. This same region seems to disconnect from another area responsible for self-reflection and daydreaming—which may be why hypnotized people aren’t worried about who they are or what they’re doing. Researchers have also found that hypnosis can calm brain regions that help control autonomic functions like heart rate, blood flow, and breathing. This is likely what leads to the physical relaxation that’s a hallmark of hypnosis, Spiegel says.

One of the most interesting modern applications of hypnosis is in the operating room, says Lorenzo Cohen, director of the Integrative Medicine Program at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. For some localized breast cancer surgeries, namely lumpectomies, the center lets patients choose between general anesthesia or a localized anesthetic and hypnotherapy. Those who choose the second option remain fully awake during their surgery, but a hypnotherapist first helps them enter a state of deep relaxation, or “hypnosedation,” Cohen says. “The local [anesthesia] should be doing its thing,” Cohen says. “The rest is in your head.”

More than 30 clinical trials have affirmed the use of hypnosedation, says Cohen (who is also researching the practice). Studies have shown that people who received hypnosedation experienced less preoperative anxiety, required less pain medication during surgery, and reported less post-operative pain intensity, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort than people who chose general anesthesia, Cohen says. “The hypothesis is that the patients who are under general anesthesia, even though they’re not conscious, are having an intense stress response,” he says. This can suppress an immune system that, in cancer patients, is already compromised by the disease and its treatments. When patients choose hypnosis, Cohen believes the body’s fight-or-flight response may be reduced.

Despite the mounting evidence, hypnosis is not without skeptics. Randomized controlled trials have found that hypnosis can help with pain and anxiety associated with a range of medical conditions, but even the best studies can’t meet the gold-standard of a double-blind design, Spiegel says. While patients and practitioners can be kept in the dark about what pill they’re administering or receiving, it’s almost impossible to design a study where neither side knows hypnosis is being delivered, he adds.

And historically, the power of hypnosis hasn’t always been wielded responsibly. The imaginative potential of hypnosis has been shown to create false memories—sometimes with devastating effects. At least 27 states ban hypnotically-elicited testimony from appearing in court. Hypnotherapists should avoid using the technique to “recover” memories, Lynn says.

But when conducted by a trained professional and properly applied, modern hypnotherapy can provide powerful results. Susceptibility to suggestion is often “viewed as a liability or a weakness,” Spiegel says, “but it’s really a strength.”

How TV influences your mind through hypnosis

Think about it: Will I be exaggerating if I say that a part of your behavior and personality is shaped by the things that you see on the screen? Definitely not! It is naive to think that television is a harmless pastime activity that doesn’t affect your psyche in any way.

Every thinking person knows that anything you expose your mind to, affects it. Your psyche is continually being shaped by all kinds of information that you receive from your environment and that includes television.

Television is one of the most effective hypnotic tools out there. It can have a huge influence on the way you think, the beliefs that you hold, and consequently how your life turns out.

Your subconscious mind, which carries all your memories and beliefs and makes you who you are, is directly programmed by watching television.

The flicker-induced hypnotic state

Your mind slips into the hypnotic trance state within seconds of watching TV. This lowers your brainwaves to a lower ‘alpha state’ commonly associated with meditation and deep relaxation. This is believed to be caused by the screen flicker and explains why you feel sleepy while watching TV.

Under this state of trance, your subconscious mind becomes highly suggestible and whatever information you receive from the TV becomes part of your memory pool.

Since beliefs are nothing but memories, this information has the tendency to alter your beliefs or form new ones when it seeps into your subconscious mind. You might think the remote is in your hand and you’re watching the programs but, in truth, you are the one who is getting programmed.

Impaired conscious filtering

Freeing your mind is all about finding out what beliefs you are holding in your subconscious, bringing them to consciousness and then eliminating the ones that have no compelling evidence or any basis in reality.

Our conscious mind is a security guard that ensures only information that we already believe in is allowed into the subconscious mind so that our pre-existing beliefs get strengthened. It has the tendency to reject any information that does not match our pre-existing belief systems.

The natural consequence of a hypnotic trance state is that your conscious filters are turned off and you are unable to critically analyze the information that you are receiving.

Moreover, when you watch TV you are not able to do any thinking because information is bombarded continuously into your mind. You get no time to process what you are watching.

Your conscious mind is eliminated from the equation and the information that you receive continues to become part of your belief system.

Compare this to reading where you can stop, think and reflect after each line that you read. You, the reader, sets the pace while you are reading and not the book. TV, on the other hand, keeps on pouring information like wine into the glass of your unconscious mind and before you know it, you are already drunk.

And that’s what you see all around you- people intoxicated with the thoughts of other people who never give sobriety a chance by reflecting on their drunkenness.

How TV influences us

How many times have you done something just because you saw someone doing it on TV?

We are hard-wired to copy those around us. This was especially important during childhood when our survival depends much on how well we copied actions that others around us did such as eating for instance.

I’ve said before that our entire childhood was essentially a period of hypnosis. We picked up beliefs from all over the place because our conscious faculty was not fully developed. We did not have the ability to question our beliefs and actions.

We saw Superman flying, got a Superman dress and tried to take off from the balcony. We saw wrestling on TV and fought with pillows in the living room, tearing the poor cottony things apart.

We saw our favourite gun-carrying heroes and were shooting imaginary aliens in your courtyard.

This is strong proof of the fact that our subconscious mind cannot differentiate between things that we see on the screen and reality. That’s why we believed all that we saw on TV when we were kids and tried to copy what we saw.

But some people just never grow out of it. Sure you can’t do anything to convince your subconscious mind that what you see on TV isn’t real, just like you can’t be ‘not-scared’ while watching a really scary horror movie alone in the night.

But what you can do is bring your conscious mind into the equation and only accept that information which agrees with your common sense and reason.

Millions of people are daily getting programmed by the stuff they watch on TV. They might not try to take off from the balcony but their life is a good reflection of what they see on the screen.

Find out what TV programs a person watches and you can know a lot about what kind of a person he is.

Millions of people are trying to live the fictional lives they see being portrayed in the films, many are identifying with their favorite celebrities and copying them and countless others are daily accepting the versions of reality their news channels present them with.

Choose what you see

TV isn’t necessarily bad if you are very conscious and deliberate about the things that you watch. Entertain and educate yourself, but don’t allow the programs to program you with irrational beliefs.

Always try to keep your critical thinking faculty switched ‘ON’ so that you don’t let others control your thought processes

Friday, June 2, 2023

NY Times: Biden Trips and Falls at Air Force Commencement

The president was helped up and walked back to his seat after delivering a speech and handing out diplomas to graduates in Colorado Springs.

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JUNE 01, 2023

NY Times: Biden Trips and Falls at Air Force Commencement

The president was helped up and walked back to his seat after delivering a speech and handing out diplomas to graduates in Colorado Springs.

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Stumbling, mumbling, grumbling "Joe Biden" has done it again. For the third time in just 26 months, the White Hat imposter wearing a skin mask has thrown himself down -- this time in front of a green-screened audience -- and, despite his advanced age, popped right back up none the worse for wear. Patterns and probabilities, boys and girls --- patterns and probabilities.

This time around, the embarrassing stunt was even phonier-looking than the previous triple "falling up" the airplane stairs (2021) and bicycle fall (2022) incidents. In addition to the clearly staged fall, note how, in the video below, the folks allegedly on stage behind "Biden" didn't even get up from their chairs, or even turn their heads, after an 80.5-year-old president has just fallen face down! Instead of a concerned collective "oooh" and "aaoh," --the crowd actually cheers the cadets marching away! There wasn't even a round of applause for the old man after he got back on his feet. These are impossible reactions, or, to be more precise, non-reactions.

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JUNE 01, 2023

NY Times: Biden Trips and Falls at Air Force Commencement

The president was helped up and walked back to his seat after delivering a speech and handing out diplomas to graduates in Colorado Springs.

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Play embedded video --- Watch it as many times as you need to.

1. Falling UP the stairs, 3 times. // 2. Falls off of his bicycle, on purpose. // 3. Shakes hands with no one.

"Biden's" Straw Man Act -- which consists of political posturing so extreme that even normies are getting spooked; deeply concerning mental lapses; and these embarrassing "falls," -- serves an important purpose. The public is being prepped for an eventual sigh-of-relief removal and subsequent play-acted and tape-delayed "arrest." Whether the final fall of "Biden" will come in the form of early removal due to scandal, or a dramatic 50-state loss to current Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump in 2024, is anyone's guess. But the destruction of "Biden" -- with the public's mass majority approval -- is coming, one way or another.

The arrest and replacement of the real Joe Biden may have taken place in 2019 --- and certainly long before that surreal "inauguration" (attended by only about 200 people) in militarily occupied DC in January, 2021. Some other points to consider about that strange day:

1. INAUGURATION TIME WAS OFF

The imposter was inaugurated 13 minutes too early -- at 11:47 on January 20, 2021, not 12:00. That had never happened before --- suggesting that his "presidency" was cut short and that Trump .may have been secretly sworn in at 12:00.

2. TRUMP WAS HONORED AS PRESIDENT

When Trump -- who never conceded the election nor attended the very strange and sparsely attended "inauguration" that day -- exited Marine One, he was respected with a red carpet rollout and a rendition of “Hail to the Chief,” and a 21-gun salute by the official presidential salute battery. Departing presidents are NOT given such presidential fanfare and honors.

3. POST-INAUGURATION FUNERAL PROCESSION

As soon as the fake inauguration -- which Trump did not attend -- was completed, what really looked like a presidential funeral procession left the Capitol for the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" at Arlington National Cemetery for a somber wreath-laying ceremony with a black carpet. This visit to a cemetery after an inauguration was as bizarre as it was historically unprecedented.

4. THE PLAYING OF "TAPS"

After "Biden" and Vice President "Kamala Harris" placed the wreath, a military bugler played "taps" -- which is for military funerals.

5. WRONG GUNS & WRONG SONG

The funeral song was followed by a 13-gun salute. which is for funerals of a “Minister Resident” – a diplomat who takes up temporary residence in a territory (DC is a territory, not a state). The band did not play “hail to the chief.” They played “Honors March One” which would be appropriate for a funeral for a Minister Resident --- that being Joe Biden.

*Editor's Note: First Lady Melania Trump -- who was often used to send out coded messages with her attire -- was dressed in funeral black that day.

You may "but but" and laugh at this analysis all you want, but the precisely-timed and protocol-obsessed military simply does not make such "mistakes." Nor would a crowd of onlookers remain seated on their asses, without batting an eyelash, as their octogenarian Commander-in-Chief falls down right before them.

Trust the plan.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Exclusive: Federal Government Funds $4.7 Million Grant — Led by Merck Consultant — to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake by Improving How Providers ‘Announce’ the Vaccine

Documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense show that Noel Brewer, Ph.D., lead investigator for the grant, consults for Merck and also received commercial research grants from Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. CHD identified more than 50 grants worth $40 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of increasing HPV vaccine uptake.

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is funding a scientist who also is a paid consultant for Merck to conduct research on how to increase teen uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, documents obtained by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request revealed.

Merck manufactures Gardasil, the only HPV vaccine available in the U.S.

Documents show that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the HHS in 2021 awarded a $4.7 million, five-year grant to the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

The grant’s principal investigator, Noel Brewer, Ph.D., a psychologist and professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health, consults for Merck and is also the recipient of commercial research grants from Merck, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

The HHS grant builds on Brewer’s previous industry and HHS-funded research investigating different “research-tested interventions” intended to reshape the behavior of physicians and patients by “improving” the ways providers “announce” the vaccine to potential recipients, in order to get more teens to take the HPV vaccine.

The grant is focused on further developing “Announcement Approach Training,” which involves having providers skip the step of discussing with families in “open-ended conversation” whether or not they want their child vaccinated for HPV and instead “presume” the family wants the vaccine and announce the child will receive it as if it were a routine part of the office visit.

Brewer and others’ previous research has shown this method reduces the time a provider needs to spend talking with their patients and increases vaccine uptake.

Other projects funded by the grant consist of conducting randomized controlled trials to see how best to get clinics and clinicians to implement this approach to increase HPV vaccine uptake, according to the FOIA documents obtained by CHD.

One trial investigates how clinics can rework their “standing orders” — the protocols for all practitioners — to standardize how clinicians talk to their patients, for example, using the announcement approach, or to otherwise change the nature of doctor-patient interactions.

Another trial investigates how financial incentives affect providers’ willingness to strongly recommend the shots. A third trial tests whether training by “trusted messengers” works to better alter provider behavior.

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Exclusive: Federal Government Funds $4.7 Million Grant — Led by Merck Consultant — to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake by Improving How Providers ‘Announce’ the Vaccine

Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.

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Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series examining federal funding for behavior modification approaches to increase uptake among teens of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Merck manufactures Gardasil, the only HPV vaccine available in the U.S.

Documents show that the National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the HHS in 2021 awarded a $4.7 million, five-year grant to the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.

Brewer and others’ previous research has shown this method reduces the time a provider needs to spend talking with their patients and increases vaccine uptake.

The overall project will compare the effectiveness and cost of the different methods and model them in rural areas, which typically have lower HPV rates.

U.S. government awarded more than 50 grants worth $40 million to increase HPV vaccine uptake

The $4.7 million grant to UNC was by far the largest awarded by the HHS to increase HPV vaccine uptake, however, it was not the only one.

CHD’s search of USAspending.gov identified more than 50 grants totaling more than $40 million awarded by the HHS to universities, healthcare systems and departments of public health to increase HPV vaccine uptake.

Two of the smaller grants came from the U.S. Department of Defense rather than HHS.

All of the grants — awarded since 2009, with most awarded since 2016 — fund projects either to test or to implement different methods to change people’s behaviors at the community, provider and patient level with the goal of getting more young people to take the shot.

Some of the more recent grants also focused on increasing HPV uptake by combating “misinformation” on social media.

This approach to vaccine uptake is part of a larger turn in American healthcare toward applying lessons from behavioral economics, like “nudging” to healthcare.

“Nudging” figured prominently during the COVID-19 pandemic and was heavily utilized by governments and public health officials throughout the world to implement restrictions and countermeasures.

Economist Richard H. Thaler and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein defined the concept in their bestselling 2008 book — “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” — as a method that “alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.”

Thaler and Sunstein presented nudging as a technocratic solution for tricky policy issues involving a perceived need to encourage, in a “voluntary manner,” policies or measures that would otherwise be unpopular.

The strategy made its way into public health long before COVID-19, with Big Pharma, regulatory agencies and doctors applying this behavioral approach to the clinic, trying to “nudge” patients toward desired choices by changing the “choice architecture” they are operating in so that they would choose differently.

Providers directed to ‘presume’ families want the vaccine

Over the past several years, much research has been dedicated to studying how “nudge” strategies can be applied to vaccine uptake, particularly the COVID-19 vaccine.

A study posted in BMJ Global Health in 2021 called for further research into whether methods such as the “Announcement Approach” could effectively “nudge” people to take vaccines.

The documents related to the $4.7 million HHS grant obtained by CHD include detailed proposals for the randomized controlled trials in the “Improving Provider Announcement Communication Training” project, which investigates this approach.

The university webpage shows a total grant of $11.7 million, which appears to include administrative overhead costs.

The broader project is divided into four sub-projects, each led by a different faculty member with Brewer as the lead investigator.

Much of Brewer’s professional work is dedicated to increasing HPV vaccination uptake. He chairs the National HPV Roundtable, which brings together medical associations, nonprofits, health insurance providers and pharmaceutical companies, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to raise HPV vaccination rates.