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Speaking of 1984...
Anyone running for a public office, instead of posturing at the podium, should be strapped into an electric chair and hooked-up to a lie detector.
At the end of their term they should take the “Old Sparky Ride” again and go through the list of their election promises and deeds. ;-)
Looney
I'd rather have some due process. At the end of their terms, put them on trial for corruption without exception, no matter how good of a job they did.
Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what "irony" is?
Baldrick: Yes, it's like "goldy" and "bronzy" only it's made out of iron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awD1gtpdWIA
But seriously, there's nothing wrong with a private shop using cameras for security. That ain't Big Brother.
I'd rather have sortition, with one-year terms, and bribery actually made illegal with both parties punished.
I know that will never happen.
Instead, we have government by the highest bidder: https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/
America isn't a democracy. America isn't a republic. America is a fucking-slow-motion-train wreck.
Enjoy the bread and circus, while you still can, and remember...
The Athenians used sortition. They also went to war. A lot. I think that the prospect of punishment for misdeeds is the kicker. Put some skin in the game, or you cannot play. Without that, I don't think it really matters how somebody is selected.
There is no problem with private shops using CCTV, after all you arent forced to go in there. More and more thouigh private video feeds are being fed to companies like Stratfor that collect the streams and use facial recognition to track people around the world.
It's not that it's being fed to companies, it's that it's being sold to companies. With spending down they have to monetize anything they can, and their video feed can be a source of income. Whether the law allows this or not I can't say, but you bet that the legality won't be addressed until after the lawsuits start.
Do I think that's right? No, do I worry that it's becoming common? Yes. Will I frequent an establishment known to sell their vid stream to a company like Stratfor? No...
There are ways around this... [Use someone else's face]
right Trux,
as our good friend @ Ducknetweb details how far along Big Bro/Sis is scoring us, check out these two posts
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/10/citizen-score-in-china-huge-warni...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/09/excess-scoring-of-us-consumers-us...
- Obama's recent Executive Order allowing data mining for sale ... from the link above :
...In the last couple of days, yet another big blow for consumers with the newest executive order that says “the government knows what’s best for you”, which I tend not to agree with most of the time. This is really bad as it’s giving data sellers a license to go hog wild. In the health care area, many get around selling your actual data and will sell one of their proprietary formula scores about you. This helps them get around HIPAA and it gets used in some risk assessment or resold again. Here’s the first two paragraphs of the Obama Executive Order on Behavior Science Insights and it’s certainly more than enough to make your hair stand on end.
I have said many times in all the White House meetings on privacy, not once could they mutter the words “data sellers” at all. White House would always dance around it and followed the same old failed routine of having lawyers write verbiage that any old coder could work right around the interpretation. It happens the time. I think also they made up this name: “ behavioral science insights” and I almost expect them to begin calling health insurance a science pretty soon. Actually a couple years ago I wrote a post to that effect as well.
“A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights -- research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them -- can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people.
Where Federal policies have been designed to reflect behavioral science insights, they have substantially improved outcomes for the individuals, families, communities, and businesses those policies serve. For example, automatic enrollment and automatic escalation in retirement savings plans have made it easier to save for the future, and have helped Americans accumulate billions of dollars in additional retirement savings. Similarly, streamlining the application process for Federal financial aid has made college more financially accessible for millions of students.”
thus the continued calls to get rid of cash - pass these articles on to others, and USE CASH as often as you can
you can bet some outfit is datamining all zh posts and will monetize it .... selfcensorship, BitcheZ
Take note of the Hunter S. Thompson books below Orwell
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
So true...
One of the things Khruschev got right was the arrest and execution of Beria.
"...we have government by the highest bidder ..."
I think that means the only free market left is in buying and selling influence in Washington.
Today on the Internet, there is almost no end to the America-haters. They think it's cool. LoL
Most of them are luckless potheads, dopeheads who favor a Libertarian flavored legalization of everything from dope to prostitution, or worse. And they typically cannot figure out why their lives are such a dismal mess. Blame the man! Hahahahaha!
The commiserating comradery of the delusional discontent goes a long way toward proving just how much dope really is for dummies.
Raise your hand in a show of little self-estem, and complete self-recognition with some typically jackass/inane/obscene reply. Come on! This is your chance to show your puny little circle of Internet friends what an idiot you really are! LoL
There are paid trolls too. Take a look at any thread regarding Russian or Chinese interests. OTOH I suspect the people peppering the thread with "zio-" this and that do it for free.
Hes been here a whole week, almost two. Cut him some slack.
s/
The more a writing relies on abstract reasoning over concrete knowledge, the less impressive it sounds. I am sure all of that dusty old crap sounds impressive with its vague nominalizations and uncontemplated over-generalizations, but the reality of it is that we are dealing with orders of magnitude more information than our recent ancestors. This is the primary cause of The Flynn Effect
From your link:
"IQ tests are updated periodically."
In other words, Intelligence Quotient tests are, in fact, changeable (and therefore unable to be relied upon as an accurate measurement of ANYTHING against ANYTHING ELSE).
Think of it as 'Common Core' (everything reduced to the Lowest Common Denominator). Intelligence 'Quotients' are, in fact, NOT measured (they simply test the retained knowledge of an individual, as opposed to the ACTUAL capacity to reason).
yes, even trying to keep up with just ZH "headlines" daily along with Life is not as easy as it used to be :)
"America Haters", eh?
I hate FRAUD and CORRUPTION, academy man.
That is endemic within United States, and the rest of the West's, society.
From the article on Deutchbank...
One year later, the 42-year old has realized that if you remove fraud and crime from the equation, banks are just not that profitable. And his hope that this is not the case, caused both the board and the market to lose patience with him.
Nothing will please me more than to watch the entire structure collapse. I pray to God Almighty, unceasingly, and THANK HIM, that the collapse of FRAUD and CORRUPTION, is happening...IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
I REFUSE to worship your Government, or ANY World Government, as they are EVIL INSTITUTIONS. I REFUSE to bow to any self appointed leader.
And I will guarantee that, one way or another, you will get exactly what you so shall deserve. That is written as both a blessing and a curse. YOUR CHOICE.
BTW...I do not drink Alcohol. Drunkards have no part in the Kingdom of Heaven. And I most certainly do NOT use Drugs. The practice of Sorcery (pharmakopeia) is also a fruit of the flesh.
Your Strawman Arguments will not hold any water or garner you any respect here.
...and welcome to Fight Club asshole. Now you must be from Nantucket so now you can go and autofellate.
No need to take the bait Tom.
It was plain for all to see.
Hopefully it is not a "Hit and Run" comment. He is deep within the Matrix and his awakening needs to be rude.
I do not think that he s a bot. I read his arrogant and pretentious bio before responding.
Today on the Internet, there is almost no end to the America-haters.
Forget the internet, Old son, We have been making enemies long before the internet.
Winston Churchill said it well " You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they have tried everything else"
And that comes from a man who knows about Islam. His writings as a young journalist are epic reading and a resounding warning.
in light of the decline of McDonald's, what if they were to
follow the Starbucks model and start offering alcoholic beverages - all the more reason to move to driverless cars and Uber - and put monitor cameras in all vehicles to make sure you don't open the alcoholic beverages whilst the vehicle is moving. Then they could randomly have the dash-breathalyzers continually report back to PoPo HQ
" America-haters."
Really?
Analysis does not come much more shallow than this.
So, you'd rather not expand yer mind, and thus yer horizons, got it.
"I'd rather have sortition, with one-year terms, and bribery actually made illegal with both parties punished."
Banning Political parties would help. All Politicans should be independent. This would help eliminate Same Party Politicans from "watching each others back". I think there would be less corruption in a "every man for himself" politican system.
* But total pipe dream of it ever happen, unless I find/build a time machine and get it included in the Constitution.
So freedom of association is immoral and should be made illegal? We cannot pool our resources for mutual goals? Your reactionary views are the very reason why every country in the world has so many fucked up laws and regulations that amount to nothing but a burden. Don't become a Fascist in your zeal to destroy them.
Sortition is no solution to oligarchy. Short-term limits only incentivize plunder of the office and complicate rooting out what actors are to blame. A system of constantly changing leadership would also necessitate a bureaucracy which essentially makes the "electorate" superflous. Bribery is already illegal. Whatever laws you would propose to further codify that won't change the game at all.
I'd rather not be subject to the legalized depredations, plunder, and oppression of the masses. Involuntary government is a disease masqurading as a cure for the ailments it both exacerbates and creates. Denis Diderot has a lovely statement on the matter.
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”Subsitute the title of authority as you wish, the statement remains true.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Yankovic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urglg3WimHA
Rockwell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
George Orwell would be right at home with Obummer. Obama has a secret "kill list" and you don't want to get on it, as Spencer Stone recently found out. Unlike Albert Anastasia, the Lord High Executioner of the Mafia who used Murder Inc. (controlled by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter) to carry out contract killings, Obama has direct control of the killers he uses to carry out "hits." Including the Mossad agents who screwed up the assassination of Spencer Stone in Sacramento, who two months ago foiled Obama's false flag attack on the French train. After stabbing Stone, a getaway car suddenly appeared. Two of the contract killers got in the car, one raced to his car, outside of the range of the CCTV. Stone was stabbed in the heart, in the liver and in the left lung, normally enough to kill you. Stabbing a person in the liver is the sign of a professional killer. A professional killer who may now be a liability. Only the exemplary skills of UC Davis' thoracic surgeons saved Stone's life. The Sacramento police chief who said the attack was not terrorism is a liar who was coached by Obama's FBI. Facts about this attempted assassination will be getting the American version of a "D" notice and be barred from the news. The Commander in Chief ordering the murder of active duty soldier -- incredible. http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article39411480.html
I just read your article. Sad story.
But the video (which is not a surveillance video) did not show 'professionals', it just looked like a bunch of street chimps, robbing someone.
I hope there are better videos of the event, that one was useless.
Oh sheet, spook ops
The Eye of Horace works both ways, eh.
Speaking of 2016...
I think the American people should demand psychological assessments of every political candidate and demand that those assessments be posted on the fucking WEB.
Let's see just how many Narcissists, Schizophrenics, Pathological liars, Sociopaths, Psychopaths, Pedophiles, and Kleptomaniacs want to fiddle while America burns at the end of the empire.
Every single politician and gov employee should also report for a piss test tomorrow morning without fail. If they can't pass the drug test, or refuse, they're immediately fired, just like everybody else.
Just as the found psychologists to help design tortures, they would find some, who for enough money, would declare them all exemplary models of mental health.
Nein,
We would find good German trained psychologists with bad breath and nein fucking sense of humor.
Yeah, the field of psychology has been completely co-opted by the feminist lobby, starting in the radical revolution of the 1960s. All a man has to do is pander to feminine ideals and sensitivities, and wha-lah, you've got a clean bill of mental health! Act and speak like a normal man during a psych-eval, and you're doomed to be found to have some personality disorder.
And God help you if you're going into a psych eval, as part of a custody battle, telling the doc you are/were a military pilot!
Don't forget the lawyers. Watched PBS's "Cheney's Law" again recently. The definition of torture was "Intentionally causing pain at or above the level of complete organ failure" Everything else was acceptable, including pain that exceeded that limit but was not "intentional"
And don't forget the accountants. As this torture law was being passed, the treasury sent out $600 economic stimulus checks, free gratis to every 'merican citizen cause the "economy needed stimulating" back in 2006.
While all those "sixes" were flying into sex, drugs, rock and roll, they were toturing people because the 1 trillion/yr Western defense apparatus could not stop 19 saudi hijackers on 911.
But yeah, "secular" modern pschology can identify people who should or should not have the right to free speech, own a gun, due process, high school level physics ...
99% my 2 cents
Right, psychological assessments are so valid, really grounded n solid science.
BS.
Just take the money out of politics and all the corrupt fuckers will leave the field PRONTO.
Simpler and more reliable than psychological assessments which also have the problem of being unreiiable and open to corruption.
You are correct.
Since the Robber Barons Era, human nature and human psychology has worked very hard to identify every human frailty of our Representative Government and has worked even harder to overcome each of those frailties.
Look around you, almost everything in life has been usurped and changed since 1950. We are a mere shadow of what the US was like 60+ years ago.
The Irony of it all is that current generations do not know has been lost, have to desire to bring it back and even if they wanted to, do not have the will to do so.
How naive. Where there is power, there can and shall be money. You will never remove profit incentive from politics, because politics is about profit. Specifically politics is about about coercing others into doing what they would not do freely otherwise. The power cannot be controlled. The power will always be sought by those whom wish to benefit from it. As such, the power must be destroyed.
Anybody who thinks Psychologists/Psychiatrists, etc. can competently and reliably diagnose and treat "mental illness" should have their head examined. Oh, wait....
Their DSM is a political construction, or rather, a de-construction. It is used for obtaining third party payments for "therapy" sessions and psychotropic "medication".
It's just another racket.
That's all true but there may be a way around that. All people with human empathy will register a physiological response to visual images (video) of animals or people being abused/ humiliated. Even people who have very low empathy will register a response; a psychopath however, will show no response or become too calm. Psychopaths often have a strange response to things that panic, horrify or disgust most people. When TSHTF they go into a type meditative state which is why they can make great surgeons, explosive ordinance and traders, they are not prone to panick and thier vitals will actually slow down... super spooky.
They are likely to pass a lie detector for similar reasons and lie detection may be a joke anyway. If we initiated that test we would hardly have a politician standing.
I just finished reading 1984, for the first time, as a seasoned adult. It really makes you think about this world in which live.
The movie is good too...
;-D
I think I'll check that out
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you, and you sold me.
Next read some Ayn Rand - if you haven't already.
Do not concur on Rand. She was a nasty person, whose emotional damage from what she saw in the Soviet Union ran deep. Her "objectivism" is downright evil - at least as evil as the communist central planning she condemned.
I'd stay away from her.
Rand is a find example of why the 'psychological assessment' recommendation above is foolish.
Lots of very strange people contribute great things to our civilization. Emily Dickenson, so many artists of all kinds, Grant was an alcoholic, etc.
Judge the product, not the psychology. You can't do that any better than the psychologists.
Do you not think that this is one of the original blue prints for the 1% Globalist alliance?
Population Control, illimination of borders, erasure of National Identities, Population division based on race, ses, economic status, natural resources, etc?
surprisingly even the silly movie "Enemy of the State" (will smith and gene hackman) is not so silly anymore. As a movie that was exaggerating, hollywoodizing the NSA, it is now childs-play compared to what has been officially documented.
Just for some conspiracy bait - In one scene: Gene Hackman makes a point to say (Jon Voight's character) "(The NSA official) was born on September 11th." Seemingly useless bit of information for the script. Movie - 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jTdRByWko8
^youtube scene - Safe for work - 10 sec
I watched 'Enemy of the State' when it was first released, and the only thing I thought was unbelievable was the standard Hollywood shit - "baddies always shoot at good guy's feet"; "people fight by exchanging the sort of blows that would kill the recipient and cripple the hand of the striker"; "you can get hit - hard - with a solid object and get up after" and that sort of shit.
But nothing - absolutely nothing - about the level of surveillance struck me as even remotely unbelievable. (I was an electronics tech in Signals in the Oz military in the early 80s).
A bookstore?! How quaint!
I used to think the Amish were crazy, but today I think they are the wisest among us.
Actually, the Luddites had the right idea!
I used to have hate for the Amish. Why should they be able to live a simple life yet when they are sick they can benefit from modern medicine from a civilization they contributed no progress to, unless you count furniture.
plus those stupid buggies... get the fk outta my way! im burning octane over here and i got places to be.
anyway.
??? Not contribute ???
How about the example of a warm culture that keeps more than 90% of its children, doubles its numbers every 22 or so years, kids experiment with all kinds of stuff in their year of outside experience, then they have zero drug use and very little conflict in their societies.
Baskets, also. Great food. My mother uses an Amish woman for the quilting step in making quilts, very fine artistic work.
Big contributions you don't see unless you look.
Notice that they pay for the medical care they receive. Solid, honest, good people. We should treasure them, a living cultural resource to show us how good we once were.
Only in the US could these good people survive and survive they shall, unless our Republic surrenders to our worst natures.
science, technology and medicine is what i meant by contribute (to modern society, to progress). They can live safely, protected by this countrys military, although they are exempt from the draft.
Not all that seems to be, is.
Well, I'll be damned. (Along with the rest of the population).
Fail. 1984 warned of GOVERNMENT spying on your own personal life, in your own home, on your own time. CCTV on private property is nothing like that.
the picture is funny, just appreciate it and dont take it too seriously. Instead look at what the book predicted (accidently?)
a tube in your home that provided entertainment and you dont know when it is or isnt watching you.
See - snowden, smurf program and windows 10 spyware are only two examples.
Samsung big TVs have had big discounts this year since it was publicized about their "always listening" feature selling that data to 3rd parties (whoever wants to buy it) ...
a fellow i know who bought a samsung "smart" watch this summer was not wearing it the last couple times I saw him ... maybe word is getting out to folks
I found the sour apple.
You, sir/ma'am, are a douche.
Depicted EXACTLY, what the sorry ass state of Assmeeehhhrreeeekkaaa..
" 1984 is set in a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation, dictated by a political system under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking. " (ed. wiki)
Sound familiar?
dup.