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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

How To Keep Yourself Perfectly Brainwashed In The Matrix

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I was thinking the other day, what if someone was so afraid of the truth that they wanted to stay in the matrix of lies their whole life, what would someone who loves fantasy and lies have to do to remain perfectly brainwashed all the days of their lives? You are probably thinking, why would someone want to be brainwashed their whole lives? It shouldn’t surprise us since we actually see this phenomenon every day. People want to remain in their fantasy paradigms instead of waking up to the truth only they don’t articulate it to themselves so bluntly. Instead people subliminally tell themselves they would rather not wake up to any truth. People regularly indulge in artificial pleasures and stories to keep their minds entertained, so entertained that they don’t have the ability to see the truth.


Unfortunately most of these desires go unspoken. I decided, what if we could expose this complacency and subconscious desire to stay asleep? Perhaps exposing what one would have to do to stay asleep will shed light on what one would have to do to go along with the natural process of awakening that we are seeing worldwide.


To begin with, staying fully asleep in the matrix of lies created by government is analogous to being a good slave, a slave that never complains and does as he or she is told. So to begin with, in order to stay perfectly asleep in the matrix of CIA western media lies one would have to commit to never questioning any story put out by mainstream media news. Purpose to feel comfortable with mainstream media news, make sure you always sympathize and empathize with everything they say. Reject any feelings and deep thoughts that may suggest to you questions like- why is it that all mainstream media entities report the same stories in the exact same many all the time as in one hundred percent of the times? Reject these impulse of logic that may try to sneak into your thought process and stay calm and obedient (like a good slave) in the narrative that has be prepared for you on TV. How easy is that?


Next, make sure that you react to news only when you are told. Pay close attention and you’ll notice that the mainstream media will tell you when to worry about something. They will guide you through the pattern of problem, reaction and solution. Wait for their solution like a good hypnotized slave that you are. Tell yourself that the solution is always the best solution. Tell yourself that if the mainstream media presents a solution to a problem then obviously the solution they present is the best solution otherwise you wouldn’t be seeing it on TV.


Tell yourself that it is only obvious that this would be the case. If a solution is not presented in the news then how in the world can it be a viable solution? Tell yourself how illogical that is since we all know that mainstream media wouldn’t settle for a half baked, poor solution. No way in the world that any of the mainstream media networks would risk their reputations by presenting a solution that doesn’t work. Tell yourself how logical this is. By training yourself to think this way you are sure to stay tightly controlled inside the matrix of lies and you will be able to avoid all forms of reality and the fear and stress that comes with embracing that silly thing called reality and it accompanying logic, truth and reason.


What else can you do to maintain your personal haven of fantasies and keep yourself in your fun hypnotic trance without disturbance from reality? Trust and believe all the Hollywood produced narratives, resist any subliminal movies that may suggest something is wrong and realize those are just producers playing with fictional ideas. Tell yourself there is no way that the United States is not the good guys. All those countries out there are just jealous of America and the military powerful empire that we are. We police the world because we have an obligation to do it. That’s right, tell yourself that if the U.S. military fails to police a country they are showing that they don’t care. Tell yourself, who cares that the U.S. has over 761 military bases worldwide and that the U.S. military has a presence in over 156 countries, that there are only about 46 countries worldwide who do not have the U.S. military occupying them. Tell yourself that the U.S. is the police of the world and it can do whatever it wants. Then realize the responsibility that mainstream media carries in conveying this message to the world. What awesome people they are!


Feel proud of your country with every day you live. Play those violent video games and tell yourself that the victims in those violent video games are simply the hard headed folks who don’t get it and deserve to have their butts beaten. Remind yourself that life is like sports, win some lose some. Those that end up dead at the hands of the U.S. and its global partners like Israel and others deserve it. Surely they did something wrong to interfere with the U.S./Israeli mission. Tell yourself that all these people who don’t agree with us are annoying anyway and their lives are worthless. The sooner we kill them off the sooner we can move on to true progress you can tell yourself.


With all the war and killing debates cleared from your mind and out of the way you can then move on to other things like making sure you never miss a game and never miss your favorite TV shows. Why would you ever consider missing a game or missing your favorite TV shows? Can you imagine the thought of that? How crazy would this be? No way, only morons with no life would ever miss their favorite TV show and the good part is that at the end of all the shows that 11 O’clock news will come on to guide you for the night. Pay attention closely and the news lady will tell you what is happening, what to expect and exactly how you should react to the next problem. It doesn’t get any easier than this. They (the media) free you from having to think on your own and you should appreciate this.


Don’t worry it’s all safe and everything is going to be alright. Unless, ISIS gets on a plane and shows up at your local mall. But how will you know what they look like? Oh gee don’t worry, stay tight to the matrix of lies and the police and the DHS will keep your safe from ISIS. Ah, isn’t it a wonderful thankful feeling you have for having DHS, TSA, Federal and local police keeping you safe from ISIS? Those amazing warriors! How could you ever thank them?


In order to keep yourself perfectly brainwashed in the matrix you’ll have to practice thoughts of government mass safety implementation. Yes, perhaps you should volunteer to be strip-searched, root for mass lock-downs and respect and behave at public check points. Tell yourself how cool those cops out there are for keeping Americans safe from the terrorists that are everywhere even though we don’t see them.


Keep yourself deep in the matrix by appreciating all the mega banks that are protecting America’s money supply. We wouldn’t want an out of control recession or financial collapse right? Tell yourself, thanks to the Federal Reserve banking system and all the too big to fail banks we are in good hands because it is obvious they care about us. Plus the mainstream media would expose those bankers if they did anything at all that was remotely illegal or immoral. Thanks to the media, they represent yet another layer of protection against corruption.


In order to stay deeply asleep in the matrix you’ll also have to silence those self-proclaimed critical thinkers that want to spread their “truth” around by bad mouthing the mainstream media, the government, the banking system and the U.S. military. Screw them, tell yourself, they are just conspiracy theorists who make up stories out of the blue just for attention. Just because they regularly produce sources and documents to back their stories means nothing. Everyone knows it’s easy to make up a phony government document and claim its a government document. Besides anyone can see a story from a different angle, it doesn’t mean these alternative angles are correct.


In order to stay comfortable in the matrix these are the types of logical arguments you must repeatedly tell yourself. You’ve heard it said many times, if 9/11 was an inside job wouldn’t someone had spoken up by now? Those that have spoken out don’t count because they are obvious conspiracy nuts and conspiracy nuts don’t count.


By repeatedly thinking this way and feeling a sensation of pleasure when obeying government you are sure to remain fast asleep in the matrix of lies created by our own government. Years of research, study of human behavior, experiment on manipulation of the masses, successful application of propaganda have proven that for as much as there is a natural process of waking up to the reality of the globalist gangster plans, there is equally a process for staying asleep in the matrix of lies and these are just some of the ways of accomplishing this.


The best and most effective way to stay asleep and brainwashed in the matrix in my opinion is to esteem sports and entertainment as more important than current events. This is the clincher technique that will guarantee your ride in the matrix will not be disturbed. You will constantly find yourself emotionally competing between listening to world events versus catching that big show tonight or watching the big game this weekend. As long as you stay focused you should be good to go. No one will disturb your ride and no one stands a chance at waking you up. No way you would ever allow that to happen. Anyone who tries to wake you up is acting selfishly and just trying to start trouble. That is why mainstream media portrays these people as conspiracy nuts and you understand this right?


Now that you know how to stay tightly brainwashed in the matrix of lies, relax and enjoy life. Screw the news and all the events of the past, present and future. Just make sure you don’t miss out on too many shows, too many concerts, games and movies. Ah life is good isn’t it?


Sadly, many Americans actually follow these instructions to perfection without realizing what they are doing to themselves, their consciousness and self awareness, their mental health, their humanity and their sanity. We truth seekers must find new ways to appeal to those asleep. This is but one suggestion.


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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Hannity Promises To Expose CNN & NBC News In "EpicFail"

"Tick tock."



In a mysterious tweet yesterday evening to his 3.19 million followers, Fox News" Sean Hannity offered a preview of what is to come from his show next week, warning that he "will expose" CNN and NBC News for what he calls a "#EpicFail."


He followed up last night"s tweet...



With another tonight, highlighting the "fake news" being spewed forth from various media entities...



We will just have to be patient to discover what he has in store for CNN and NBC, but as The Hill notes, Hannity has focused on what he calls "the destroy Trump fake news media" on most nights during his Fox News prime-time opinion program, particularly during his opening monologues that invariably include clips of CNN and MSNBC hosts and pundits going after the president in hyperbolic fashion.


Like many cable news hosts this week, Hannity is on vacation the week between Christmas and New Year"s Day. He will return to the airwaves on Jan. 2.


The past year has been a good one for the 55-year-old staunch conservative, with his candidate of choice in Trump taking office, his move from 10 p.m. to the more-watched time slot of 9 p.m. and his finish on top of the cable news ratings race following the move, averaging 3.2 million viewers.









Sunday, December 3, 2017

McAdams Warns US Empire Is "Too Fragile" For A Free Press

The US Congress yesterday revoked press credentials for the Russia-backed RT America television station, claiming RT"s new "foreign agent" status disqualified it from conducting journalism on Capitol Hill.


RPI Director Daniel McAdams appeared on RT"s The Ed Shultz Show to criticize the move on the grounds that the US government should not attempt to prevent Americans from viewing whatever media they choose.


The move is really an attempt by Washington"s neoconservatives to prevent any criticism of US interventionist foreign policy, he told RT:










Wednesday, November 29, 2017

FLASHBACK: Matt Lauer Chastises Bill O"Reilly Over Sexual Harassment Charges

Content originally published at iBankCoin.com


 



In light of today"s news that Matt Lauer sexually harassed multiple people at NBC, I think it"s interesting to see how Lauer handled the O"Reilly interview, following his leave from Fox for similar charges. I strongly suggest that Bill now reach out to Matt and switch roles, this time Bill taking the high sanctimonious role, chastising Matt for being a perverted and evil man.



BONUS: Lauer"s NBC Today show hosts get emotional over the charges, expressing their love and deepest sorrow for Mr. Lauer.


Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Keith Olbermann: "I"m Retiring From Political Commentary"

Keith Olbermann, anti-Trump video blogger, self-proclaimed leader of the "Resistance", and former ESPN, MSNBC, Current TV and Fox Sports host announced on Monday that he is retiring from political commentary. The progressive provocateur made the announcement during the final episode of “The Resistance,” a political show sponsored by GQ that airs on YouTube.


“I am retiring from political commentary in all media venues” Olbermann said. "Thank you for all the kind words and all the support. Have fun storming the castle. My work here is done. Matter of fact, so is Trump"s."


He framed his departure by stating that "I am confident now even more so than I have been throughout the last year that this nightmare presidency of Donald John Trump will end prematurely and end soon, and I am thus also confident that this is the correct moment to end this series of commentaries." He added that Trump will either be removed from office or forced to resign by his own party sometime in the next 13 months. 


Clarifying his departure, the 58-year-old insisted that he wasn"t being fired and was in good health: "No illness. No scandal. No firing. Just I"ve said what I"ve had to say. It was as obvious as I made it seem. I give my work everything I can, so it"s not like I can dial it back."


In a twitted preview of his retirement, Olbermann said that "After “Pocahontas,” Trump’s an ex-president waiting to happen - imminently. So this will be the last episode of #TheResistanceGQ. If you’re a political account and I unfollow you it ain’t personal." Doubling down on the Pocahontas incident, Olbermann then added that "The good news: I’m finishing it because, especially after the “Pocahontas” debacle, I think Trump is unavoidably, inevitably, and in every possible path open to him, FINISHED "


In the wind-up to his announcement, Olbermann reiterated his running line for the past year, claiming that it is all but inevitable that Trump will either be removed from office or resign from the White House. He asserted that the Republican will be impeached over the Russia investigation or forced by Republicans to leave office.



“I’ve made my point…I’d like to go back and enjoy some of my life again,” said Olbermann, who seemed to take credit for what he predicts will be Trump’s downfall. Olbermann went on to complain about his time on the show, saying that he has “not enjoyed one minute of it.”


“As, I’m certain, it has also been for you, for me it has been unadulterated pain and revulsion and horror. The process has become nearly 24/7,” said Olbermann, who says he produced the show without pay. Olbermann also took one last dig at mainstream television news networks and the “dim-witted world of American political TV reporting, which is still trying to get dim-witted Trump supporters to watch their network.”


Nearly seven years earlier, Olbermann surprised his fans with a similar abrupt exit from media: in Jan. 2011, he announced his departure from MSNBC during the final episode of his show, “The Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” A few months later he joined Current TV, the network founded by Al Gore. That gig lasted just over a year. Olbermann was accused by colleagues of failing to show up to work according to The Daily Caller, which added that in a statement announcing Olbermann’s departure, Gore said that “the values of respect, openness, collegiality, and loyalty to our viewers…are no longer reflected in our relationship with Keith Olbermann and we have ended it.









Thursday, November 23, 2017

NFL Ratings Slump Worsens As ESPN Forced To Slash $80 Million In Salary Costs

As the NFL continues to try to address the ongoing civil war between Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Commissioner Roger Goodell, not to mention the intermittent hostile fire from the White House, viewers are increasingly deciding they"ve had enough and are abandoning professional football viewership altogether.  As the NY Post points out today, the embattled league saw ratings dip 6.3% in Week 11 meaning 1 million fewer people tuned in to see players take a knee during the national anthem versus last year.








The TV audience for NFL games steepened its slide in Week 11, losing 1 million viewers versus last year’s season-to-date average.


 


The 6.3 percent slump — worsening from comparable declines of 5.6 to 5.7 percent during the previous three weeks — plagued a week whose off-the-field drama made gridiron tackling seem almost tame by comparison.


 


After starting 11.8 percent behind last year’s TV audience for NFL games in Week 1, league viewership had either held its own or narrowed the gap through Week 8.


 


The 6.3 percent shortfall in Week 11 reflects an average viewership of 14.9 million for the NFL’s 68 national telecasts this year versus 15.9 million for the season-to-date in 2016.



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Meanwhile, the ratings dip, combined with massive subscriber losses (see: ESPN Lost 15,000 Subscribers A Day In October), has taken a huge toll on ESPN which Yahoo News reports will have to cut some $80 million in salary costs to offset their plunging top line. 








ESPN is poised to slash an estimated $80 million in salaries and other costs in coming weeks, sources tell Sporting News.


 


The third round of layoffs in two years at the Disney-owned sports network is expected to come down after Thanksgiving and before Christmas. Sporting News broke the news that ESPN planned to lay off up to 60 people in late November and early December. Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated followed up with a report that said 100 positions could be impacted.


 


ESPN lost a whopping $1 billion in affiliate revenue after dropping 13 million subscribers in just six years, according to the SportsBusiness Journal. Sports insiders agree ESPN overpaid for the NFL"s "Monday Night Football" ($1.9 billion annually) and the NBA ($1.4 billion a year). During 2016, ESPN"s prime-time viewership fell 19 percent, according to the SBJ. Rather than driving Disney"s profits, ESPN has been dragging them down, spooking Wall Street analysts.


 


Meanwhile, ESPN management threw money at many anchors, analysts and reporters whose contracts were up in recent years to stop them from jumping to FS1 and other competitors. Some lost those high-paid TV gigs this spring. But ESPN is still on the hook to pay their full salaries until they get a new job elsewhere. Not many have over the past six months. Given the length of some of these expensive deals, not many will in the future, according to Awful Announcing.


 


"ESPN is dealing with three simple math problems. They have fewer subscribers than they planned for. They have higher costs than they planned for. They lower ratings than they hoped for," said one source.



Perhaps it"s time for the NFL to admit that while most Americans can agree that professional football is really fun to watch, roughly half of them are going to disagree with whatever political stance its players decide to cram down their throats during games...so maybe best to just stick to football.









Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Bahamas Prime Minister Blames US Cable News For Collapse Of Journalism

Over the weekend, Bahamas Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis addressed the Third Annual Press Club Awards Banquet, where he blamed the collapse of journalism standards on 24-hour cable news shows in the United States. He said, the declining of standards “would not have been allowed in previous times” and urged local journalist not to be  “champions of any political party, business, group or interest in a country”.



While addressing the Third Annual Press Club Awards Banquet Munnis said,




This is not a practice that would be allowed by journalists in other countries. I am not speaking here of editorial writing. A journalist and a columnist are distinctly different roles.


 


The 24-hour cable news shows in the United States have in a number of ways led to a lessening of standards that would not have been allowed in previous times. There has been a considerable blurring of reporting and commentary.


 


It is telling when certain standards have been breached, that some in the press do not even realize that a standard has been breached.


 


Journalists are not supposed to be champions of any political party, business, group or interest in a country.




Minnis noted that journalist must report news on a fair and balance perspective while avoiding conflict of interests, adding “the best journalism criticises, celebrates and inspires”. In the United States, that is certainly not the case with 24-hour cable news networks waging an informational war against the American people flooding them in a DDOS style attack of misinformation. The constant bombardment of Russia/Trump collusion stories have sent the trust in television news to record lows.



The Jamaican Observer ends the report by saying,




Minnis said, adding that the press has an essential role in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability.


 


“By pressing public officials for accurate and timely information, the press helps citizens to learn about the decisions being made by a government on their behalf,” he told the awards ceremony.  




It seems as Bahamas Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis and the American people have something in common and it’s the distrust of the mainstream media. The one question we ask mainstream media execs: Was the fake news in the last election cycle worth the credibility loss?









Friday, November 10, 2017

Russia Warns It Will Retaliate Against American Media Next Week

It has been over a month since Russia and the US engaged in political tit-for-tat escalations, but that is about to change: after a recent crackdown by the U.S. government, which ordered state broadcaster RT to register as a foreign agent following accusations it interfered in last year’s presidential elections, and which saw Twitter ban all RT-sourced advertising (despite actively seeking RT"s business beforehand) Russia said on Thursday it would retaliate next week against the American media, Bloomberg reports.


While the Russians didn’t specify what measures would be taken, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that “practical implementation” of steps in response to the U.S. move would begin next week. Russia has previously warned its retaliation would mirror restrictions imposed by the U.S. The foreign-agent label, which applies to several state-owned outlets operating in the U.S. including Japan’s NHK and the China Daily newspaper, requires disclosure of the media organization’s foreign funding.


As reported earlier today, RT"s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, said on the broadcaster’s website that it has no choice but to comply with the DOJ’s demand to register as a foreign agent by a final deadline of Monday. Otherwise, the head of the channel’s U.S. subsidiary would face arrest and its bank accounts would be frozen, she said. “This demand violates U.S. law and we intend to appeal it in U.S. courts.”


What may Russia"s next move be?  One month ago, Zakharova said that “we have never used Russian law in relation to foreign correspondents as a lever of pressure, or censorship, or some kind of political influence, never. But this is a particular case..."


She cited a 1991 Russian law which, she said, stated that if a Russian media outlet is subject to restrictions in a foreign country, then Moscow has the right to impose proportionate restrictions on media outlets from that country operating inside Russia. “Correspondingly, everything that Russian journalists and the RT station are subject to on U.S. soil, after we qualified it as restriction of their activities, we can apply similar measures to American journalists, American media here, on Russian territory." She did not identify any specific U.S. media outlets that would be targeted. She said it made no difference from the Russian government’s point of view if those outlets were backed by the U.S. state, or privately-funded.


In September, Russia’s state communications regulator accused CNN International of violating its license to broadcast in Russia and said it had summoned the broadcaster’s representatives in connection with the matter. The watchdog did not publicly disclose the nature of the violation. The head of the regulator said it was a technical matter and denied that politics was involved. The U.S. Congress is investigating RT’s role in the 2016 election, as well as possible influence by state-owned Sputnik news service.


Russian authorities have signaled that CNN and Radio Liberty could be among those targeted in response to the action against RT.









Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Occult Worship – Hollywood’s other Dirty Secret Everyone Knows of But No One Talks About (VIDEO)

Occult Worship - Hollywood


By Buck Rogers, WakingTimes.com | 


The avalanche of revelations about the perverted and predatory sexual underbelly of Hollywood and the entertainment industry is long overdue. It has always been an open secret of sorts, but the whole house is coming down right now as more people are suddenly feeling empowered to speak out, and the media is finally ready to listen and take seriously to the stories of victims.


But what if pedophilia and the sexual harassment of women in entertainment is only a symptom and not actually the disease?


Just below the surface, hidden in plain sight in Hollywood is the overwhelming influence of the occult and the esoteric schools of ancient black magic. It has always been present in this industry because those who seek power in our world have long recognized that television, film and music are the most efficient and important roadways into the public psyche and the collective conscience.


Many have warned us about this for years, composing volumes of books and videos, gathering evidence of this bizarre conspiracy.


“Hollywood is, as David Lynch titles it, an “inland empire” – a kind of covenantal city-state of its own, with its own religion, including all the trappings of neophytes, acolytes, servants, agents, star saints, hierophants and hierarchs and holy sites.  It is a veritable polis of initiatory esoterica where the holy sites and rites of Hollywood are not the altars of mainstream religion, but another ancient religion, ultimately summed up in the epithet of the ancient mysteries.  The ancient mysteries comprise the competing religious practices of the empires of old, but the one empire that seems to have achieved the most appropriate association with Hollywood is Babylon – the “gate of the gods”.” ~Jay Dyer


Clues appear in the form of symbols and the use of symbolic set and setting in order to introduce occult memes into the subconscious. Subliminal messages packed with sexual innuendo including veiled pornographic images and reproductive anatomy are vaguely concealed in films. Music videos are laden with satanic imagery and overtly demonic themes.


Here is a compilation of examples of this in many of Disney’s children’s films:



Here is a compilation of Illuminati and satanic symbols appearing in music videos. There are hundreds of more examples of this that are quite easy to find.



Illuminati symbolism is a recurring theme, often resurfacing as the chosen celebrity covering one eye. The symbol of the one eye is of course the same single eye that watches from atop the symbolic pyramid, a symbol on our money and scattered throughout the political world.


There are so many instances of actors, musicians and pop stars being photographed with one eye covered that it defies the definition of coincidence. Here is a collage with just a tiny fraction of available examples.


Occult Worship - Hollywood


Hollywood has its own hidden language that is stunningly pervasive in entertainment media, with recurring themes applied over again in new contexts. There is so much to it that it cannot be ignored, but you don’t see it until you’ve been introduced to it. Once you see, though, you see it everywhere.


The themes are applied in so many productions that it utterly defies coincidence, which means there must be some greater unifying message or purpose to it all. Based on the type of symbols and when looked at in the historical context of esoteric religious movement, Egyptian theology, Babylonian mythology, Satan worship and so on, Hollywood and the movie industry is clearly working to serve a particular idealogical movement.


The worship of dark and satanic forces has historically been linked to human sacrifice, pedophilia, sexual perversion, ego worship, celebrity worship, fragmentation of the individual psyche into controllable parts, mind control and corruption of the soul. The use of the occult and its symbols is a methodology employed to weaken the power of the individual and to create psychological slaves. It is a serious form of mind control.


While there certainly is reason to applaud the growing tidal wave of truth about Hollywood, one can only hope that these revelations ultimately go all the way to the core of the depravity in Hollywood, and that we can finally liberate our culture from these dark influences.



Buck Rogers is the earth-bound incarnation of that familiar part of our timeless cosmic selves, the rebel within. He is a surfer of ideals and meditates often on the promise of happiness in a world battered by the angry seas of human thoughtlessness. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com.


This article (Occult Worship – Hollywood’s Other Dirty Secret that Everyone Knows Of but No One Talks About) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Buck Rogers and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.


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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Twitter Bans RT, Sputnik Ads "For Attempting To Interfere With The US Election"

In a blog post this morning, Twitter"s Jack Dorsey explains why the social media company is banning RT and Sputnik from advertising on their platform...


Twitter has made the policy decision to off-board advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately. This decision was based on the retrospective work we"ve been doing around the 2016 U.S. election and the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that both RT and Sputnik attempted to interfere with the election on behalf of the Russian government. We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter.


 


Early this year, the U.S. intelligence community named RT and Sputnik as implementing state-sponsored Russian efforts to interfere with and disrupt the 2016 Presidential election, which is not something we want on Twitter. This decision is restricted to these two entities based our internal investigation of their behavior as well as their inclusion in the January 2017 DNI report. This decision does not apply to any other advertisers. RT and Sputnik may remain organic users on our platform, in accordance with the Twitter Rules.


 


Twitter has also decided to take the $1.9 million we are projected to have earned from RT global advertising since they became an advertiser in 2011, which includes the $274,100 in 2016 U.S.-based advertising that we highlighted in our September 28 blog post, and donate those funds to support external research into the use of Twitter in civic engagement and elections, including use of malicious automation and misinformation, with an initial focus on elections and automation. We will have more details to share on this disbursement soon.



Notably, the "off-board"-ing move comes less than a week before the company will testify on Russian election meddling on Capitol Hill, where he"ll join colleagues from Google and Facebook.



RT is not taking this lying down, asking an awkward question that we suspect will also get asked next week in Congress...



We are sure this move will please Mark Warner, but the bigger questions are how will Putin respond, and whether Facebook and Google (which owns YouTube) are likely to follow Twitter"s freedom-of-speech-denying lead.









Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Mediocre, Tailing 2Y Auction Stops At Highest Yield Since October 2008

With everyone and their grandmother short the short-end of the curve, if not enough to push repo rates into negative territory and just begging for a short squeeze, moments ago the Treasury sold $26 billion in 2Y paper in a largely average if somewhat disappointing auction, which will only embolden the bears to press the short end more.


The auction stopped at 1.596%, tailing the When Issued of 1.591% by 0.5bps; this was the highest yield for a 2Y auction since October 2008. The auction bid/cover ratio was 2.74, down from last month"s 2.88. The average bid/cover was 2.79 over the prior year, but a stronger 2.93 over the prior six months. Non-comps were $129.5 million this month, up from $118.8 million last month, and there were $100 million in FIMA non-comps.


The Internals were a modest improvement to last month, with Indirects taking down 48.2%, up from 44.2% in September, but well below the 53.5% six auction average; Direct bidders were awarded 14.15% vs the 6 month average of 15.1% and below last month"s 19.0% while Dealers were awarded 37.7%, up from 36.8% last month and well above the six prior average of 31.4%.


Overall, a mediocre auction which could have been even worse in light of today"s ongoing risk on euphoria, and in light of a virtual certainty that the Fed will hike not only in December but continue tightening over the next year. The only question is whether the disappointing auction will prompt a parallel widening in the curve or if, as has been the case in recent months, the curve flattens even more.










Friday, October 20, 2017

The Creed of Sleaze has a Warm Spot in Hell

The Creed of Sleaze has a Warm Spot in Hell | film-movies-television-media | Sleuth Journal Special Interests US News


In today’s popular culture, there is no hell. Well; by most historic standards, the dread of eternal punishment was a modifier for eons. Now, the aspiration for reaching a cosmic consciousness, among the empyrean utopians seeks a merger of their personality, experiences and identity into an artificial intelligence that will liberate the constraints of the mortal body. Death would be conquered. Without the fear of oblivion, there could be no condemnation into the bowels of Hades. As the predator ethos expands into every corner and crevice of society, the pervaders of filth dominate the mentally disturbed minds that have emerged as the new measure of public amorality. The easiest way to destroy a country is to eliminate the moral fiber of her people. With the absence of afterlife agony, the hell that remains is the hip lifestyle that idolizes degenerates and denounces the remnant of traditional values.


David J. Stewart argues in Hollywood’s Evil Agenda, the following.


“It is clear to me from the type of movies that Hollywood has produced over the past couple decades that increasingly they are pushing agendas, and they have agendas which are evil to the core. It is no secret that Hollywood is Jewish owned and controlled. Hollywood is very much Jewish, which is why hundreds of Jewish actors have changed their names. Most Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah. Do a web search under “Jewish actor’s real names in Hollywood” and you’ll be surprised to learn how Jewish Hollywood really is. Don’t get angry at me, I’m just telling you the truth. It’s the Jewish Talmud that promotes child molesting.”


Now for all those who admonish that EVERYONE should never mention the unmentionable, answer the question. When will the “PC” matrix allow a serious and constructive dialogue about the role played by the most disgusting pedophiles, which promote and perpetuate sodomy against the most innocent of future generations? There are no consenting adults in these practices. Only abuse and permanent damage of emotional stability comes from ignoring this curse upon decency and propriety.


The latest exposure of sexual deviation within the inner chambers of Hollywood comes as no surprise to any objective observer of the movie trade. Even a solid pro Zionist publication like the Weekly Standard nibbles around the edges to make their political point in The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think.


“Which brings us, finally, to the other reason the Weinstein story came out now: Because the court over which Bill Clinton once presided, a court in which Weinstein was one part jester, one part exchequer, and one part executioner, no longer exists.


A thought experiment: Would the Weinstein story have been published if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency? No, and not because he is a big Democratic fundraiser. It’s because if the story was published during the course of a Hillary Clinton presidency, it wouldn’t have really been about Harvey Weinstein. Harvey would have been seen as a proxy for the president’s husband and it would have embarrassed the president, the first female president.”


Ah yes, that inner demon of collective silence that protects all the destroyers of civilized society needs cover to keep their secrets safely away from public scrutiny. By now most are sick about hearing the tortured gymnastics that attempts to explain that it is Donald Trump’s fault and Harvey was just acting in the best interests of his beloved thespians. Of course the reality is that the power moguls in the cultural distortion racket have always been some of the most disgusting slobs ever to crawl on all fours.


Those that read The Hollywood Reporter, TMZ or Variety may be intrigued about all of Harvey Weinstein’s peccadilloes, but when it comes to the perfectionists of excrement that far out paces the destruction of the personal lives of nauseous silver star aspirants, look to the producers of the wag the dog war franchise. The wickedness out of Tinsel town takes a back seat to the atrocities continually committed by the formulators of foreign policy.


The band of fornicators that plan the overthrow of governments, the bombing of entire regions and the eradication of any scripted enemy that challenges the authority of the Imperium, are the matchless human stain vultures.


So what is the common thread between the fantasy world of Hollywood and the cold hard destruction of regime change, often set to the melodious score of bombs from drones? Under the last administration the cast of characters reads accordingly in Who Controls the State Department?


Do you see an interlocking directorate of bar mitzvah graduates? Well, ignoring this pattern is much more dangerous than being entertained by a Harvey Weinstein downfall from the red carpet of publicity cleavage. Low cut dresses worn by floozies is a mere distraction from the pronounced obscenities that goes on under the desks at the State Department. The demise of bimbos by a crazed dominator does not hold a candle to the holocaust of entire nations and their civilian populations.


Furthermore, the linkage between the war party within the District of Criminals and the screenplays used to direct the action of mass murder in the green lighted picture shows are startling. Evaluate the example of 10 Hollywood Movie Scripts Altered By The Pentagon.


  1. Zero Dark Thirty

  2. The Sum Of All Fears

  3. The Quiet American

  4. 1984

  5. The Right Stuff

  6. Clear And Present Danger

  7. GoldenEye And Tomorrow Never Dies

  8. Transformers Franchise

  9. Pearl Harbor

  10. Black Hawk Down

A few years back before the last presidential campaign, Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, MD, PhD and the model for Tom Clancy’s fictionalized Jack Ryan applied his clandestine remedies within the intelligence community, states the obvious.


“I am writing what I suspect is the beginning of an obituary for the Hollywood Film Industry which was founded on the simple premise of entertaining the masses without resorting to ‘dick jokes’ or music that has been buried within the distorted cavities of nostalgia. I once again reaffirmed for myself that the nonsensical solipsistic palaver of the Hollywood presenters and ex-celebrities was very much akin to the nonsense that we, Americans hear on a daily basis from our present leaders in the White House; as well as, our self-adoring, dim-witted contenders for the Presidency. America, it’s time to shut off the TV.”


Maintaining the sleaze in the popular psychopathic mass media environment covers-up the war crimes being committed in the normal course of spreading the globalist empire. This practice can only be described as a reign of terror against humanity.


The consequences of apathy and denial result in a habitual phobia of avoiding any unpleasant subject or topic that might be viewed as socially unacceptable to the mass brainwashed public. While the news rags, the entertainment press and the social media run the most asinine and trumped up outrage over Hollywood surprise and shock about a celebrity scoundrel, but express dead quiescence when it comes to cleaning house among the beltway internationalists that foster a policy for world domination by the money changers; is outrageous.


Allowing a bunch of hooligans that are in the business of smut purveyance to obliterate common decency is unforgivable. So too the genocidal lunatics that are in league with the demons of human destruction deserve their just condemnation into the Hell-Pit of abomination. These monsters are similar to Mephistopheles and have made their Faustian bargain with the devil.


Until the remaining souls of righteousness rise up to defeat the forces of evil, the warfare machine will continue to kill the lifeblood of civilization. The zombie hordes that lick up the amusement treats that come out of the porn industry are complicit in the rush to the bottom of the barrel. Likewise, the obedient order followers, who take up the sword to murder whomever the chain of command dictates, are also duplicitous and bear the guilt of their actions.


As long as the creed of sleaze continues, do not look for any improvement in the moral prospects within our society. Hollywood is already a suburb of hell. And the acquiesces of the current Trump administration that adopts an Israel First foreign policy results in the same moral betrayal that will fail America.


There is no glory in rewriting history to make overseas campaigns into magnificent adventures. Alas, if that is the goal the globalist establishment has screenwriters available at the CIA and eager movie producers in waiting at the film studios.


Do you believe even for a New York minute that the Weinstein’s of this world are concerned about their eternal souls? Hell no. They are all plugged into the cyber template to achieve immortality. Just maybe that is the actual meaning when Meryl Streep paid tribute to “God, Harvey Weinstein, the punisher, Old Testament, I guess.” And Jews smear any criticism as anti-Semitic when the real blasphemy is exhibited in the sordid conduct of ego-maniacs like Weinstein.


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Thursday, October 19, 2017

How The Elite Dominate The World – Part 3: 90% Of What You Watch On Television Is Controlled By Just 6 Giant Corporations

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How much is your view of the world shaped by what you see on television?  On average, Americans spend more than 150 hours watching television every month, and it is called “programming” for a reason.  If you allow anyone to pour ideas and information into your mind for five hours a day, it is going to change how you look at reality.  Everyone has an agenda, and every single news program, television show and movie is trying to alter your views.  Sadly, our society has become absolutely addicted to media, and the mainstream media is completely dominated by the elite.  In fact, about 90 percent of the programming that comes through your television is controlled by just 6 gigantic media corporations.  Most of us are willingly plugging ourselves into this “propaganda matrix” that is completely dominated by the elite for several hours each day, and that gives them an enormous amount of power over the rest of us.


In Part I and Part II of this series, I discussed how the elite use money as a tool to dominate the planet.  Today, we are going to talk about how they use information.  If you control what people think, then you control a society.  And through their vast media empires, the elite are able to shape how we all think to a frightening degree.


Just think about it.  What do we talk about with our family, our friends and our co-workers?  To a large extent, those conversations are about movies, television shows, something that we just saw on the news or a sporting event that just took place.  The reason why we talk about certain things is because the mainstream media gives those things attention, and other things we ignore because the mainstream media does not make them seem to be important.



The mainstream media literally sets the agenda for our society, and it would be difficult to overstate the power that is in their hands.  And as I mentioned above, the mainstream media is almost entirely controlled by just 6 colossal corporations.  The following list of these 6 corporate giants comes from one of my previous articles, and this is just a sampling of the media properties that they each own…


Comcast


NBC
Telemundo
Universal Pictures
Focus Features
USA Network
Bravo
CNBC
The Weather Channel
MSNBC
Syfy
NBCSN
Golf Channel
Esquire Network
E!
Cloo
Chiller
Universal HD
Comcast SportsNet
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Studio Home Video


The Walt Disney Company


ABC Television Network
ESPN
The Disney Channel
A&E
Lifetime
Marvel Entertainment
Lucasfilm
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Disney Mobile
Disney Consumer Products
Interactive Media
Disney Theme Parks
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures


News Corporation


Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox News Channel
Fox Business Network
Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
National Geographic
Nat Geo Wild
FX
FXX
FX Movie Channel
Fox Sports Networks
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Post
Barron’s
SmartMoney
HarperCollins
20th Century Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Blue Sky Studios
Beliefnet
Zondervan


Time Warner


CNN
The CW
HBO
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
HLN
NBA TV
TBS
TNT
TruTV
Turner Classic Movies
Warner Bros.
Castle Rock
DC Comics
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
New Line Cinema
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine


Viacom


MTV
Nickelodeon
VH1
BET
Comedy Central
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Country Music Television (CMT)
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land


CBS Corporation


CBS Television Network
The CW (along with Time Warner)
CBS Sports Network
Showtime
TVGN
CBS Radio, Inc.
CBS Television Studios
Simon & Schuster
Infinity Broadcasting
Westwood One Radio Network


If nobody tuned in to their “programming”, they would not have any power over us.


But according to a report put out by Nielsen, Americans are plugging into “the matrix” more than ever before.  The following is how our daily use of media breaks down by device…


Live TV: 4 hours, 31 minutes
Time-Shifted TV: 33 minutes
Radio: 1 hour, 52 minutes
DVDs: 8 minutes
Video Game Consoles: 14 minutes
Multimedia Devices (Apple TV, Roku, etc.): 13 minutes
Internet on PC: 58 minutes
Smartphone: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Tablet: 31 minutes


When you total those numbers up, it comes to 10 hours and 39 minutes.


In essence, Americans are spending most of their waking hours plugged in to something.


And if you only add together “live television” and “time-shifted television”, Americans are spending an average of more than five hours each day just watching television.


Of course many of us spend countless hours on the Internet as well.  It has been estimated that 54,907 Google searches are conducted, 7,252 tweets are posted, 125,406 YouTube videos are viewed, and 2,501,018 emails are sent out every single second.


You may have guessed this already, but most of the news and information that we consume on the Internet is also controlled by the elite…



Overall, the top 10 publishers — together owning around 60 news sites — account for 47% of total online traffic to news content last year, with the next-biggest 140 publishers accounting for most of the other half, SimilarWeb found.


The biggest online news publisher for the U.S. audience was MSN, owner of MSN.com, with just over 27 billion combined page views across mobile and desktop, followed by Disney Media Networks, owner of ESPN and ABC News, with 25.9 billion.



This is why the “alternative media” is so important.  All over America and all over the world, people are waking up and realizing that they aren’t getting the truth from the mainstream media, and they are hungry for truly independent sources of information.


The only way that we are ever going to be able to throw off the insidious system of control that the elite have established is by winning the information war.  We are literally in a constant battle for hearts and minds, and the good news is that we have made a lot of progress.  Over the past decade we have “red pilled” millions upon millions of people, but we still have a long way to go.


Faith in the corporate media is dwindling, and the elite are deeply concerned about this.  The Internet has allowed ordinary people like us to communicate on a mass scale, and this has never been the case before in human history.  We have a window of opportunity to fight back against the elite, and we must not let this opportunity pass us by.


We are literally engaged in a battle for the future of this planet, and let us never waver in our pursuit of victory.







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Saturday, October 14, 2017

The NYTimes Asks Reporters To Stop Being Partisan On Social Media

Days after James O"Keefe released his latest undercover video which took direct aim at the New York Times" Audience Strategy Editor, Nick Dudich, who repeatedly admitted to promoting content that intentionally seeks to, among other things, damage President Trump"s businesses as a means towards forcing his resignation, The New York Times became the latest mainstream media organization to “clarify” its social media policy for journalists, reminding them that “partisan” posts (i.e. posts explicitly bashing President Donald Trump) will no longer be tolerated.


America’s paper of record joined the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post in gently reminding its journalists that abiding by stringent standards of the “unbiased” press, while occasionally uncomfortable when reporters are forced to swallow controversial opinions, is necessary to retain what little credibility the media has left in the eyes of the public.



Interestingly, the paper’s public disclosure of its standards – which Executive Editor Dean Baquet said was done “in the interest of transparency” -  comes amid an escalating feud between President Donald Trump and NBC which began after the latter published an anonymously sourced report claiming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron, and has most recently expanded to encompass a debate about whether the FCC should revoke television networks’ operating licenses for biased or unfair coverage.


“We’ve always made clear that newsroom employees should avoid publishing anything on social media that damages our reputation for neutrality and fairness. This memo offers more detailed guidelines.


Department heads will be responsible for ensuring that these guidelines are followed by all staff members in their departments. Violations will be noted on performance review.”


Here’s a summary of the new guidelines:


  • In social media posts, our journalists must not express partisan opinions, promote political views, endorse candidates, make offensive comments or do anything else that undercuts The Times’s journalistic reputation.

  • Our journalists should be especially mindful of appearing to take sides on issues that The Times is seeking to cover objectively.

  • These guidelines apply to everyone in every department of the newsroom including those not involved in coverage of government and politics.

  • We consider all social media activity by our journalists to come under this policy. While you may think that your Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram, Snapchat or other social media accounts are private zones, separate from your role at The Times, in fact everything we post or “like” online is to some degree public. And everything we do in public is likely to be associated with The Times.

  • On that same note, we strongly discourage our journalists from making customer service complaints on social media. While you may believe that you have a legitimate gripe, you’ll most likely be given special consideration because of your status as a Times reporter or editor.

  • Avoid joining private and “Secret” groups on Facebook and other platforms that may have a partisan orientation. You should also refrain from registering for partisan events on social media. If you are joining these groups for reporting purposes, please take care in what you post.

  • Always treat others with respect on social media. If a reader questions or criticizes your work or social media post, and you would like to respond, be thoughtful. Do not imply that the person hasn’t carefully read your work.

And the list goes on (you can read it in full here).


  • If a reporter is still unsure about posting, the Times recommends that they first ask themselves:

  • Would you express similar views in an article on The Times platforms?

  • Would someone who reads your post have grounds for believing that you are biased on a particular issue?

  • If readers see your post and notice that you’re a Times journalist, would that affect their view of The Times’s news coverage as fair and impartial?

  • Could your post hamper your colleagues’ ability to effectively do their jobs?

  • If someone were to look at your entire social media feed, including links and retweets, would they have doubts about your ability to cover news events in a fair and impartial way?

We’re glad the Times cleared that up. Its new guidelines can effectively be summarized as “don’t publish anything on twitter that you wouldn’t publish in the Times.” That said, the standard still allows ample room for the paper"s reporters to pass off partisan rhetoric as "impartial" fact. That is, if it"s enforceed. It"s likely many of the paper"s reporters will continue tweeting partisan attacks - the default subscriber boosting position - despite the new "guidelines."

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Las Vegas Sheriff: "You Got To Assume He Had Help" As "Mystery Woman" Emerges

During a lengthy press conference update on the investigation into the Las Vegas massacre, Clark County Sheriff Lombardo expressed his belief that gunman Stephen Paddock had to have help at some point but sarcastically says "maybe he’s a super guy."


Clearly showing the strains of the last 72 hours, the sheriff explained...






 “Look at this. You look at the weapon obtaining the different amounts of tannerite available, do you think this was all accomplished on his own, face value?”



“You got to make the assumption he had to have help at some point, and we want to insure that’s the answer. Maybe he’s a super guy, super hero–not a hero, super–I won’t use the word. Maybe he’s super — that was working out this out on his own, but it will be hard for me to believe that.”



“Here’s the reason why, put one and one–two and two together, another residence in Reno with firearms, okay, electronics and everything else associated with larger amounts of ammo, a place in Mesquite, we know he had a girlfriend. Do you think this is all self-facing individual without talking to somebody, it was sequestered amongst himself. Come on focus folks these type of investigations have been occurring in the last few years and we have to investigate that.”



Sheriff Lombardo began by giving more detailed timeline of the Las Vegas Police effort to breach the hotel door...



Additionally, Sheriff Lombardo stated that the piece of paper in the gunman"s hotel room was not a suicide note and that authorities have seen evidence that the shooter planned to survive and possible escape, adding that he could not disclose details...



Police also told a news conference that 317 of the 489 people injured in the Las Vegas shooting have been discharged from hospitals.


Lombardo also said none of the cameras Paddock put up in the hotel room where he unleashed gunfire onto a concert crowd were recording, and noted that the shooter had 1,600 rounds of ammunition and several containers of an explosive commonly used in target shooting that totaled 50 pounds in his car.


Earlier this afternoon, several law enforcement officials told NBC News that investigatorsare trying to identify a mystery woman seen with Stephen Paddock in the days before the Las Vegas massacre. They don"t know if she has any connection to the attack, but they would like to speak with her as they build a timeline of Paddock"s last days, the officials said.


So to summarize - He had help, planned to escape (so was not a suicide mission), there is a female potential accomplice at large, and the FBI further confirmed that "no evidence at this point to say it was an act of [domestic] terrorism."

Monday, October 2, 2017

RIP, Monty Hall: The Time Everyone "Corrected" The World's Smartest Woman

Monty Hall, the genial host and co-creator of “Let’s Make a Deal,” the game show on which contestants in outlandish costumes shriek and leap at the chance to see if they will win the big prize or the booby prize behind door No. 3, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday. He was 96.



In memory of the great entertainer, we present:


The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman


Authored by Zachart Crockett via Priceonomics.com,


By all accounts, Marilyn vos Savant was a child prodigy.


Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1946, the young savant quickly developed an aptitude for math and science. At age 10, she was given two intelligence tests -- the Stanford-Binet, and the Mega Test -- both of which placed her mental capacity at that of a 23-year-old. She went on to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the “World’s Highest IQ,” and, as a result, gained international fame.



Despite her status as the "world’s smartest woman,” vos Savant maintained that attempts to measure intelligence were “useless,” and she rejected IQ tests as unreliable. In the mid-1980s, with free rein to choose a career path, she packed her bags and moved to New York City to be a writer.


Here, she caught a break: when Parade Magazine wrote a profile on her, readers responded with so many letters that the publication offered her a full-time job. Shortly thereafter, she established “Ask Marilyn,” a now-famous weekly column in which she answered (and continues to answer, to this day) a variety of academic questions and logic puzzles. It was in the body of one of these columns that vos Savant ignited one of the most heated statistical battles of the 21st century.


When vos Savant politely responded to a reader’s inquiry on the Monty Hall Problem, a then-relatively-unknown probability puzzle, she never could’ve imagined what would unfold: though her answer was correct, she received over 10,000 letters, many from noted scholars and Ph.Ds, informing her that she was a hare-brained idiot.


What ensued for vos Savant was a nightmarish journey, rife with name-calling, gender-based assumptions, and academic persecution.


The Monty Hall Problem: A Brief History



Imagine that you’re on a television game show and the host presents you with three closed doors. Behind one of them, sits a sparkling, brand-new Lincoln Continental; behind the other two, are smelly old goats. The host implores you to pick a door, and you select door #1. Then, the host, who is well-aware of what’s going on behind the scenes, opens door #3, revealing one of the goats.


“Now,” he says, turning toward you, “do you want to keep door #1, or do you want to switch to door #2?”


Statistically, which choice gets you the car: keeping your original door, or switching?


If you, like most people, posit that your odds are 50-50, you’re wrong -- unless, of course, you like goats as much as you like new cars, in which case you"ll win 100% of the time.


Loosely based on the famous television game show Let’s Make a Deal, the scenario presented above, better known as the “Monty Hall Problem,” is a rather famous probability question. Despite its deceptive simplicity, some of the world’s brightest minds -- MIT professors, renowned mathematicians, and MacArthur “Genius” Fellows -- have had trouble grasping its answer. For decades, it has sparked intense debates in classrooms and lecture halls.


Historically, the Monty Hall Problem was predated by several very similar puzzles.


In Joseph Bertrand’s box paradox (1889), three boxes are presented -- one containing two gold coins, one containing two silver coins, and the final containing one of each. Assuming the participant draws one gold coin from a box, the problem then asks what the probability is that the other coin in that box is gold. Bertrand, who concluded that the probability was ?, was lauded for his ability to look beyond the obvious.


A second iteration of this paradox, the Three Prisoners Problem (1959), presents a statistically identical scenario, with the same outcome. “[It’s] a wonderfully confusing little problem," its creator, Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner, later wrote, smugly. "In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory."


First presented in a letter to the editor of The American Statistician in 1975, the Monty Hall Problem was also counterintuitive. In this letter, Steve Selvin, a University of California, Berkeley professor, splayed out the situation in the intro of this article, and contended that switching doors yields a ? chance of winning the car, whereas keeping the original door results in winning only ? of the time. 


Over the next decade or so, the Monty Hall Problem made several appearances, first in a Journal of Economics Perspectives puzzle by Barry Nalebuff, and subsequently in a 1989 issue of Bridge Today, by Phillip Martin. Neither man’s logic was refuted, and the problem generated relatively little attention.


Then, after 15 years without incident, the Monty Hall Problem was resurrected by Marilyn vos Savant -- and an absolute shit-storm ensued.


Marilyn vos Savant’s Debacle



In September 1990, Marilyn vos Savant devoted one of her columns to a reader’s question, which presented a variation of the Monty Hall Problem:





“Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?”



“Yes; you should switch,” she replied. “The first door has a 1/3 chance of winning, but the second door has a 2/3 chance.”


Though her answer was correct, a vast swath of academics responded with outrage. In the proceeding months, vos Savant received more than 10,000 letters -- including a pair from the Deputy Director of the Center for Defense Information, and a Research Mathematical Statistician from the National Institutes of Health -- all of which contended that she was entirely incompetent:





You blew it, and you blew it big! Since you seem to have difficulty grasping the basic principle at work here, I’ll explain. After the host reveals a goat, you now have a one-in-two chance of being correct. Whether you change your selection or not, the odds are the same. There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country, and we don’t need the world’s highest IQ propagating more. Shame!


Scott Smith, Ph.D.
University of Florida


 


May I suggest that you obtain and refer to a standard textbook on probability before you try to answer a question of this type again?


Charles Reid, Ph.D.
University of Florida


 


I am sure you will receive many letters on this topic from high school and college students. Perhaps you should keep a few addresses for help with future columns.
W. Robert Smith, Ph.D.
Georgia State University


 


You are utterly incorrect about the game show question, and I hope this controversy will call some public attention to the serious national crisis in mathematical education. If you can admit your error, you will have contributed constructively towards the solution of a deplorable situation. How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind?
E. Ray Bobo, Ph.D.
Georgetown University


 


You made a mistake, but look at the positive side. If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble.
Everett Harman, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Research Institute


 


You are the goat!
Glenn Calkins
Western State College


 


Maybe women look at math problems differently than men.
Don Edwards
Sunriver, Oregon



The outcry was so tremendous that vos Savant was forced to devote three subsequent columns to explaining why her logic was correct. Even in the wake of her well-stated, clear responses, she continued to be berated.





 “I still think you’re wrong,” wrote one man, nearly a year later.


 


“There is such a thing as female logic.”



Yet, the numbers behind vos Savant"s conclusion don"t lie.


Debunking the Monty Hall Problem


Since two doors (one containing a car, and the other a goat) remain after the host opens door #3, most would assume that the probability of selecting the car is ½. This is not the case.


“The winning odds of 1/3 on the first choice can’t go up to 1/2 just because the host opens a losing door,” writes vos Savant. Indeed, if you map out six games exploring all possible outcomes, it becomes clear that switching doors results in winning two-thirds (66.6%) of the time, and keeping your original door results in winning only one-third (33.3%) of the time:



Another way to look at this is to break down every door-switching possibility. As we’ve delineated below, 6 out of the 9 possible scenarios (two-thirds) result in winning the car: 



These results seem to go against our intuitive statistical impulses -- so why does switching doors increase our odds of winning?


The short answer is that your initial odds of winning with door #1 (?) don’t change simply because the host reveals a goat behind door #3; instead, Hall’s action increases the odds to ? that you’ll win by switching.


Here’s another way to visualize this. Imagine that instead of three doors, Monty Hall presents you with 100 doors; behind 99 of them are goats, and behind one of them is the car. You select door #1, and your initial odds of winning the car are now 1/100:



Then, let’s suppose that Monty Hall opens 98 of the other doors, revealing a goat behind each one. Now you’re left with two choices: keep door #1, or switch to door #100:



When you select door #1, there is a 99/100 chance that the car is behind one of the other doors. The fact that Monty Hall reveals 98 goats does not change these initial odds -- it merely "shifts" that 99/100 chance to door #100. You can either stick with your original 1/100 odds pick, or switch to door #100, with a much higher probability of winning the car.


Still, while the math and numbers back up vos Savant’s assertion -- that the odds of winning increase to ? when you switch doors -- one must consider other factors she doesn’t address in her answer.


The Psychology of Rationalization



Monty Hall, host of "Let"s Make a Deal"


In 1992, while the controversy over vos Savant’s answer brewed, Monty Hall -- the game show host, and namesake of the problem -- sat down for an interview with the New York Times.


Hall clarified that things worked a bit differently than the scenario presented by the Parade reader in vos Savant’s column. In the real show, for instance, he retained the authority to offer the contestant cash NOT to switch. Details like this, he said, altered the contestant"s mindset:





"[After I opened a door with a goat], they"d think the odds on their door had now gone up to 1 in 2, so they hated to give up the door no matter how much money I offered...The higher I got, the more [they] thought the car was behind [the other door]. I wanted to con [them] into switching there. That"s the kind of thing I can do when I"m in control of the game. You may think you have probability going for you when you follow the answer in her column, but there"s the psychological factor to consider."



The “psychological factor” Hall mentions carries over from the show’s rules to the variation of the problem we’ve presented in this article. For contestants and problem-solvers alike, the Monty Hall Problem causes cognitive dissonance, a term psychologists use to describe the “mental stress experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.” 


When people are confronted with evidence that is “inconsistent with their beliefs” (ie. the odds of winning by switching doors being ?, instead of ½), they first respond by refuting the information, then band together with like-minded dissenters and champion their own hard-set opinion.


This is precisely the mentality of vos Savant’s thousands of naysayers.


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More than 25 years later, arguments over the Monty Hall Problem’s semantics and vos Savant’s response still pervade -- mainly centering around the intricacies of the host’s actions. 





“Our brains are just not wired to do probability problems very well, so I"m not surprised there were mistakes,” Stanford stats professor Persi Diaconis told a reporter, years ago. “[But] the strict argument would be that the question cannot be answered without knowing the motivation of the host."



Eventually though, many of those who’d written in to correct vos Savant’s math backpedaled and ceded that they were in error.


An exercise proposed by vos Savant to better understand the problem was soon integrated in thousands of classrooms across the nation. Computer models were built that corroborated her logic, and support for her intellect was gradually restored. Whereas only 8% of readers had previously believed her logic to be true, this number had risen to 56% by the end of 1992, writes vos Savant; among academics, 35% initial support rose to 71%.


Among the new believers was Robert Sachs, a math professor at George Mason University, who’d originally written a nasty letter to vos Savant, telling her that she “blew it,” and offering to help "explain.” After realizing that he was, in fact, incorrect, he felt compelled to send her another letter -- this time, repenting his self-righteousness.





“After removing my foot from my mouth I"m now eating humble pie,” he wrote. “I vowed as penance to answer all the people who wrote to castigate me. It"s been an intense professional embarrassment.”