Showing posts with label Groupthink. Show all posts
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Friday, May 4, 2018

The 7 Walls of Your Mental Prison: Mike Adams “Counterthink” Video Teaches You the Art of Mental Freedom

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com



Most people live inside mental prisons, afraid to venture outside the walls that define the “boundaries” of socially acceptable ideas or speech.


There are seven walls that define your mental prison, and there are seven enforcers who keep you imprisoned. Those seven enforcers use seven weapons to destroy any thoughts of freedom or self-identity.


I lay all this out in a 47-minute video lecture that teaches you how to escape your mental prison and find true freedom. In this video, shown below, you’ll learn:



  • The 7 WALLS of your mental prison

  • The 7 ENFORCERS of your mental prison

  • The 7 WEAPONS used by enforcers to keep you trapped in your mental prison


Watch the video below and share widely. To continue expanding your freedom to think, watch all the counterthink episodes being posted frequently at Counterthink.com. Also, request a video content channel at REAL.video, the new alternative to YouTube censorship, launching this July.





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Friday, March 16, 2018

Thiel: Bullish On Bitcoin, Trump, & Musk; Bearish On AI, EU & Political Correctness

This report was originally published by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge



Fresh off his move to Los Angeles, and a profile in the New York Times where he defended President Donald Trump and lashed out at the pervasive groupthink that drove him out of Silicon Valley, billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel sat for an interview with Maria Bartiromo at the Economic Club of New York.


Early in the discussion, Bartiromo asked Thiel – who famously opened for Trump at the Republican National Convention – what he thought about Trump’s performance.


In response, he explained that he’s extremely happy with the president’s performance during his first year in office. While the media has been hyperfixated on the latest leak from the Russia probe, Trump has quietly been slashing regulations and questioning orthodoxies like the economic benefits of free trade.




“That’s why, if he runs again, he will be reelected,” Thiel said.


Though “it’s probably the case that Democrats will do quite well in the midterms.”


He also pointed out the irony that people in the Bay Area describe him as a “contrarian” for supporting Trump…


“Supporting Trump was the least contrarian thing I ever did…nearly half the country voted for him. But within the context of Silicon Valley it was viewed as extremely contrarian.”


“The one thing that I liked about Trump and still very much like about him is a willingness to ask questions and to reframe the debate and not be bound by these strictures.


“There are any of a number of issues where it’s good to rethink things.”


Later in the conversation, Bartiromo asked Thiel about the “Gawker situation.” Thiel, who sounded uncharacteristically willing to discuss an episode about which he has been famously reticent, explained that Gawker’s argument in its own defense was, in reality, an insult to journalism. Thiel said that just because Gawker billed itself as a news site doesn’t automatically extend first amendment protections to everything it publishes.


“I’m very proud to have supported Hulk Hogan in a successful lawsuit… The claim that a pornographer pays someone for sex tapes, and a journalist gets to publish sex tapes without paying people… that’s what in effect what Gawker was arguing.”


“We have a first amendment, we believe in free speech, but that doesn’t mean you get to steal a sex tape made in the privacy of a bedroom and post it on the Internet for everybody to see. We have a first amendment…but we also have a fourth amendment that protects us from unreasonable search and seizure…so that’s the legal framing.”


The Gawker lawsuit demonstrated to America why defining the scope of privacy protections in the digital age is so important. Today, the conventional wisdom is that Americans have tacitly surrendered their right to privacy by participating in the digital world. But Thiel says this notion is anathema to the preservation of a free society.


There was a brief discussion of trade, in which Thiel briefly pointed out that US is in a much stronger position to bargain with China and EU than vice versa…


“Quite unclear where China can reciprocate with tariffs on US. We’re exporting so little. US no longer is a monopoly exporter in any single area.”


“With Germany, it’s a very similar thing, hard to know how you retaliate in a way that hurts them more than it hurts US.”


The Silicon Valley billionaire then added that Peter Navarro has sold 1 million copies of his book “Zero To One” in China vs. 40,000 in India, which Thiel says is one way to show how one country is thinking about entrepreneurship versus the other.


When Bartiromo raising the European Union’s decision to introduce the “first ever” regulations of Google, Facebook and other giant tech platforms. Thiel sees good reasons and bad reasons for this threat of regulation:


“The good reasons are these privacy concerns and the bad reasons are there are no successful tech companies in Europe and they are jealous of the US so they are punishing us.”


Additionally, Thiel acknowledged that “privacy in a digital era deserves to be rethought” but said that “as a libertarian I always dislike regulation.”


Intriguingly, amid all the hype and anxiety surrounding investment, Thiel explained why, as an investor, he wasn’t particularly interested in artificial intelligence: because of its bad reputation.


“The thing that struck me is how uncharismatic AI is at the point. Basically, it’s going to take our jobs and, once it takes our jobs, at the singularity [the theoretical point at which superhuman artificial intelligence is created, triggering an unprecedented cascade of technological change] it’s just going to kill everybody.”


“I’m not sure that dystopian view is necessarily correct but that’s actually what most people believe,” he said, adding that when considering investments he tends to ask whether technologies are good and how they are going to make the world better…


“The answers for things like AI are quite weak,” he said.


Bartiromo then steered the conversation toward bitcoin, and mentioned that, the last time she had spoken to Thiel, that he had expressed reservations about a lot of cryptocurrencies, but was optimistic about the long-term prospects of bitcoin. Thiel explained that he’s owned bitcoin for a long time, and has been consistently bullish.


Though he doubts it’ll ever be successful as a medium for payments, Thiel believes bitcoin could endure as a store of value that, much like gold, could serve as a hedge against inflation.


“The technology that people like to talk about is the blockchain technology, and I’m somewhat skeptical about how that translates into good investments, but the one use-case of cryptocurrency as a store of value may actually have quite a bit of a ways to go. I would be long bitcoin and neutral to skeptical of just about everything else at this point, with a few possible exceptions.


“The question with something like bitcoin is whether it can become a store of value. And the thing it would replace is something like gold. The analogy is it’s like bars of gold in a vault that never move and you get it and it’s a hedge of sorts against the whole world falling apart.”


“The objections that people have to bitcoin are also objections to gold. It’s this weird currency that’s not backed by any government. Same thing is true of gold. It’s not clear what the intrinsic value of bitcoin is. Same thing is true of gold. It may well be a bubble, but – and most bubbles are unstable and end – one of my friends has this line that ‘money is the bubble that never pops’, so if it is a bubble, then it is money.”


“If everybody decided that a $100 bill was worthless then you wouldn’t want to have a $100 bill.”


There are a lot of crazy dynamics in the crypto world, but one thing that’s different from the dot-com bubble of the late 90s is there aren’t any Wall Street bankers involved… yet – one reason why bitcoin strikes Thiel as “deeply contrarian.”


At the very least, both Wall Street and Silicon Valley were both late to the bitcoin party. While this isn’t a reason to be bullish in and of itself, it’s definitely a factor worth considering. And while there are risks surrounding the influence that miners exert, as well as the unraveling of privacy protections. But, Thiel says, there will likely be only one online equivalent to gold…and right now, bitcoin is the only crypto product that fits that bill.


Thiel offers some parting advice: “Never bet against Elon.” and “don’t compete with Amazon.”


When Thiel first invested in Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, he was sceptical that it would be able to build a reusable rocket.


“I have known Elon for 18 years and you should never bet against Elon,” he said.


“I thought it was inconceivable that it could be done … and they have actually pulled it off,” he said.


The company to watch, he said, was Amazon, which has expanded into a broad range of industries, from infrastructure and logistics to retail and healthcare.


“Amazon is the most ferocious company in the US at this point. It’s probably the company you don’t want to be competing against,” he said.


“I can’t think of any other company even close to Amazon.”


Finally, Thiel circled back to Silicon Valley and the politically-correct folly of it all…


“It’s striking how what had always been a very liberal place has become almost a one-party state,” he said.


“When you have complete unanimity that tells you that political correctness may have gone a little bit too far.”







Thursday, February 22, 2018

Inflicting ‘Social Justice’ on Gun Rights and Wages


As of this writing, it has barely been 24 hours since President Trump instructed the DOJ (Department of Justice) to ban “bump stocks,” the modification that enables a semiautomatic rifle to fire rounds at a rate of fire similar to that of a fully-automatic weapon. The Democrats already have hundreds of pages of proposed legislation to ban different types of weapons. This current directive of the President (via Presidential “Memorandum”) is heinous in the fact that it is yet completely undefined.


Nobody knows what “modifications” will be covered in a document banning them. The fact remains that it could be so loosely interpreted as to encompass any part or accessory not made by the manufacturer and included with the original firearm. This attack on firearms has been incremental and not unexpected: nobody thought the Democrats would cease their efforts with the current administration in office.


Then again, who would have thought an American President would cave in so readily at the behest of the liberal gun-grabbers and the “court of public opinion” on this matter?


I have written in numerous articles that the paradigm shift will continue to move to the left. It is taking a “breather” with the current administration…but society is still moving toward socialism in thought and action (termed “community”) as well as groupthink and redistribution of wealth (termed “social justice”). It’s not just the guns.  There are other sectors that are rapidly moving in this direction.


In 2011, the Obama regime had one good thing that it put into place. The Department of Labor upheld that wages earned by waitresses, waiters, and other service people who are employed as bellhops, bartenders, and room service attendants…these people were entitled to keep their tips.


And why not? In the United States, is not a worker entitled to what they earn? Well, not anymore.


The Trump administration has approved of a DOL rule change that would make it mandatory for service people to share tips with others who do not directly interact with the customers being served. Sharing the wealth. Yes, this is now to include people who were forbidden to take any tips by law unless the server agreed to it, such as cooks, groundskeepers, and others. In addition, it is being ruled that employers now “own” the tips. Exit free enterprise, and time to crush another group of people and distribute the wealth.


You would have thought that Obama made this rule change and the President made the one in 2011, that’s how diametrically opposed to one another these rules are.


Now “tip pooling” that had previously been only able to be done with the consent of the employees can now be forced.  This will also bring more income “into the light” for taxes. There’s another insidious vampire lurking in the wings…another “partner,” so to speak, on the stage to “craft” the demise of the tip: The National Restaurant Association. When this rule goes through, wage theft, overtime theft, and tip theft will run rampant…and the National Restaurant Association will benefit from the thefts (soon to be labeled as “appropriations” …the whole thing is termed a “rescission” under the Color of Law “reforms”) by the added income to restaurant owners that will trickle to them.


Oh, and the new rule would benefit the President: he would be able to keep and profit from his employees’ tips in all the different business that he owns.


But that’s O.K., as it’s the new paradigm, as illustrated by an article on the matter that you can read in it’s entirety here: Trump Is About to Make Tip-Pooling Legal Again. Here’s What That Means for Restaurant Workers


And here’s an excerpt from one of the “prominents” of the restaurant industry, showing the new, politically-correct (and Socialist) thought that “must” govern tipped workers:


“Service comes from the entire restaurant,” says Dan Rafalin, managing partner at Avroko Hospitality Group, which owns and runs restaurants like Saxon and Parole and Genuine Roadside in New York City. “We believe that the cooks are part of the service experience and customer experience. We all come to work and we are in it together.”


Thanks, Daniel Rafalin! We’re in it together…so why aren’t you sharing your salary and the profits from your lovely organization with the employees? Why?


It is anent control, dominion, and redistribution of the wealth…to make everyone poor…everyone will wear the same uniform, have the same wage, and suffer under the same burden of taxes and profligate spending of those funds by politicians. It is all about exempting themselves and placing the burden on the citizens.


First, we have “flying monkey” Cruz with his perfectly-timed rampage that so conveniently sets up “changes” in existing firearms laws, and next, they’re doing more to place everyone on the same treadmill at exactly the same rates…the community collective…the group hive. The ones who “craft” the laws are fine with all of it: they are not subject to the laws themselves. They’ll continue to take the money…the worthless fiat currency that supports the phony, artificial system…that collapses eventually in the design of Cloward and Piven.


When they take the firearms, it will be a different matter. The “turtle and the scorpion,” and when that turtle takes the scorpion across the river, the scorpion will sting him. He must: he’s a scorpion. When they remove the firearms, just wait and see what they’ll do next. Want a preview? Read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn, and you’ll understand how it will be…if we allow it to happen.  The odds are that nothing will be done…by us:


        “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”  – Animal Farm by George Orwell

Monday, February 5, 2018

U.S. Surveillance Grid is Crafted Nationally toward Global Integration

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Most of the time a headline is not enough, nor even a “wake-up” call from a Julian Assange or an Edward Snowden. Many times, the headlines or warnings are buried beneath a plethora of duplicitous distractions crafted by the Mainstream Media (MSM) that are tabloid in nature: sensationalism, not focused and objective reporting. But the passage of time tends to turn the conscientious into dullards and dim the memories until they are forgotten.


We all know how October 1, 2016, Obama turned over control of the Internet to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Do you know what their slogan is? “One World, One Internet.”


Using the “social needs” portion of the Hierarchy of Needs pyramid…to foster groupthink and group cooperation, all of American society (from birth to death) is precisely controlled and funneled into a system that will enable the docility of subjects (citizens, if you prefer) and their transition into the global governance and the New World Order (NWO).


Here is a statement made by an ICANN board member regarding the transition from U.S. government control to “stewardship” by a corporation that is supposedly an NPO (Non-Profit Organization). Take note of the language.


“This transition was envisioned 18 years ago, yet it was the tireless work of the global Internet community, which drafted the final proposal, that made this a reality,” said ICANN Board Chair Stephen D. Crocker. “This community validated the multistakeholder model of Internet governance. It has shown that a governance model defined by the inclusion of all voices, including business, academics, technical experts, civil society, governments and many others is the best way to assure that the Internet of tomorrow remains as free, open and accessible as the Internet of today.”


As can be seen, the singsong language contradicts itself: “…multistakeholder model of Internet governance…”   “…a governance model…,”    “…the best way to assure…”  “…the Internet of tomorrow remains as free…as the Internet of today.”


The word “free” is used to describe the Internet in the same sentence as “Internet governance.” No liberty there…except the liberties they take in “taking care of all of this for us,” while they “take care of us,” no doubt. Games.  Games played by the stakeholders. Multistakeholder?  Would that be Prof. Van Helsing in Dracula? Or is it referring to the usual “conga line” of nabobs, such as oligarchs and their front-corporations, and the politicos. The sacred triumvirate of power-broker billionaires to own it all, elected thieves enriched by the billionaires to place it into law that oligarchs and politicos own and control it, and the religious silver-tongued swami’s (pick any denomination) to soothe the serfs and use sacred scripts to assure a smoothly-sailing servitude, with no say-so.


So, the current model of Internet governance assures us that the Internet will always be free…and that is why ICANN currently has one of their main offices in Beijing, right next to State Security of the People’s Republic of China.


Look deeply, and you can see it. A few years ago, L-1 Identity Solutions was tasked with the creation of biometric systems for passports and driver’s licenses by the U.S. government. Let’s take a quote out of Wikipedia to see what L-1 does:


“L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. is a large American defense contractor in Connecticut. It was formed on August 29, 2006, from a merger of Viisage Technology, Inc. and Identix Incorporated. It specializes in selling face recognition systems, electronic passports such as Fly Clear, and other biometric technology to governments such as the United States and Saudi Arabia. It also licenses technology to other companies internationally, including China.”


How nice: multistakeholders, again. But wait! There’s more!  L-1 isn’t L-1 any longer: it was bought by Safran in 2011 for about $1 billion. This is a French company…a multi-subsidiary holding company, to be exact. “Identity management” is one of the cards they hold in their deck of activities. So, what about L-1 of Connecticut? Well, it shifted into Morpho, the security and identity division of Safran. And then Morpho “morphed” into OT (Oberthur Technologies) Morpho, still specializing in the digital security and biometrics as before.


But the big news in all of this is that an international firm has bought an American firm that is responsible for biometric and digital data in U.S. passports and driver’s licenses.  


In the past two weeks we saw the introduction of H.R. Bill 4760, that includes detailed and lengthy provisions for what amounts to the establishment of national ID cards and passports that ensure complete control of citizens before they exit the borders of the United States.


All these activities point toward a subtle movement and integration of the U.S. into an international interdependency that will eventually lead to all U.S. economic, social, and infrastructure systems being placed under foreign control…toward the abolition of American sovereignty and the destruction of U.S. borders, language, culture, and way of government.


By performing such actions slowly and incrementally, it keeps the activities out of the public eye and the forefront of scrutiny. Work, taxation, consumption, and entertainment…THX-1138 ad infinitum…until cage has been completely constructed. The power-brokers, oligarchs, nabobs, and religious leaders all have assured themselves a “seat at the table” after the United States is carved up, subjugated, and reduced in numbers.


To paraphrase their own words: governance to assure freedom.


You know, governance: all with the barrel of a gun to “help you with your compliance” in the same manner as the governing authorities “assure your freedom.” Night and day, they’re working nonstop to close the cage and implement these systems…while also working to maintain the stultifying theatrics of the Super Bowl, movies to escape from reality, and tabloid non-news to shape and mold public opinion.


Governments, politicians, corporations, and oligarchs do not do these types of things for no reason. Frog in the kettle. They are implementing a global system of surveillance and control, and the United States is the final obstacle for that global governance. The result will not be smiling stewardship…it will be totalitarianism with teeth…. rule by force, not government by consent.  Malthus, More, Marx…and “1984” by Orwell will be only fictitious in the scope of the narrative. The existence of the totalitarian State and all its facets described will be a reality, and when it’s in place, that boot Orwell imagined may very well be trampling upon the face of humanity forever.




Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne).  Mr. Johnson is also a Gunsmith, a Certified Master Herbalist, a Montana Master Food Preserver, and a graduate of the U.S. Army’s SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape).  He lives in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with his wife and three cats. You can follow Jeremiah’s regular writings at SHTFplan.com or contact him here.


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