Robert Epstein Warns Against Big Tech Manipulation

Via Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • Robert Epstein, Ph.D. warns about Google’s ability to control public policy, swing elections and brainwash our children
  • The methods Google uses are ephemeral and leave no paper trail behind, making it very difficult to track and prove that they’re using humans as pawns, manipulating us via ways that we can’t counteract
  • Research by Epstein and colleagues has found that biased search results can change people’s opinions and voting preferences, shifting opinions in undecided voters by 20% to 80% in certain demographic groups
  • Google’s “autocomplete” feature on its search engine can turn a 50/50 split among undecided voters into nearly a 90/10 split — all without people realizing they’re being manipulated
  • The first step to breaking free from Google’s dictatorship is recognizing that the manipulation is occurring; the next involves consciously opting out of it as much as possible by protecting your privacy online

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Shanghai Gold Exchange Sees 61.8 Tonnes Withdrawn In Eighth Largest Week Ever – Talk To the Hand

Guest Post by Jesse

“Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time. When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.”

Bernard M. Baruch

Asia continues to add significant amounts of gold bullion to their wealth reserves.

Wall Street and its sycophants would like us to consider gold to be just ‘a pet rock’ or ‘like trading sardines.’   And yet central banks have turned to be net buyers, and Asia and the Mideast continue to buy bullion in record amounts.   Talk to the Chan.

One of the few coherent things Alan Greenspan said was that statists of all persuasions, both right and left, have ‘an almost hysterical antagonism towards gold.’ This is because gold resists their will to power over others.

So why isn’t gold ‘working’ at this moment in history?

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Secrets revealed of how Israel manipulates U.S. public opinion

Schedule military attacks when the media is distracted by other things

Reuters
An Israeli air strike in Gaza.

One of the Israeli government’s secrets to manipulating the American media has been revealed for the first time by new research.

Israel habitually launches its most unpopular and, sometimes, deadly attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to coincide with big news events here in the U.S., so that they don’t get too much public attention, according to the study.

The news management is so sophisticated that the Israeli government is especially good about avoiding damaging “follow-up” or “day two” stories about its attacks — stories most likely to include awkward human interest details about the casualties and their families.

So finds a study conducted by Ruben Durante, professor at Sciences Po in Paris, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, professor at the Paris School of Economics Read the study: Attack When the World is Not Watching? International Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

“We find that Israeli attacks are more likely to occur prior to days with very high news pressure driven by clearly predictable events.”

Ruben Durante and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

The findings aren’t just useful for those following the news from the Middle East, but are fascinating for students of marketing, manipulation and propaganda everywhere — from politics to business.

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THE FANNIE & FREDDIE FARCE

Let’s just cut to the chase. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are worthless, government run, manipulated pieces of insolvent shit. Their books are a fraud. The billions in profits they have reported over the last three years are an accounting illusion. The money they have “paid back” to the U.S. Treasury isn’t cash. It’s an accounting entry. Obama and his minions have counted these fraudulent accounting entries as a reduction in the annual deficits. It’s all a farce.

The proof is in the charts. Fannie and Freddie stocks have plunged by 35% this morning due to some court ruling. None of it matters. These two companies are completely worthless. They have been manipulated by politicians and bankers for decades.

As you can plainly see from the two charts they both traded at $1.50 per share this morning. I’m guessing the idiots who bought the stocks at $6 in March are feeling a little down in the dumps today.

So let me get this straight. Fannie supposedly had revenue of $123 billion in 2013, with an $84 billion profit, and their stock trades at $1.75???? Freddie supposedly had revenue of $76 billion and profits of $49 billion in 2013, and their stock trades at $1.75????

Maybe, just maybe, those numbers are a fraud. Fannie Mae lost $160 Billion between 2008 and 2011. Freddie Mac lost $60 billion between 2008 and 2011. You the taxpayer picked up the tab for the $220 billion in losses. These losses are after the FASB knuckled under and waived the mark to market accounting rules. Using real accounting, these losses would have been $400 billion to $600 billion.

Through the magic of creative fraudulent accounting get a load of these figures:

  • Fannie Mae has supposedly generated $110 Billion of profits over the last two and a half years. If these profits were real would their stock price really by $1.75? Of course not. These are fake profits generated by journal entries.
  • The truth can be found on the balance sheet. Fannie Mae has $3.2 TRILLION of debt. It has NEGATIVE $128 Billion of equity. That is the definition of insolvent. The assets on their balance sheet are grossly overvalued. If they tried to sell them in the open market they’d be lucky to get 50% of the reported value.
  • Freddie Mac has supposedly generated $65 Billion of profits in the last two and a half years. Their stock price also languishes at $1.75. Their financial reports should be on the funny pages. They’re laughable.
  • The Freddie balance sheet is a laugh riot. They have total debt of $1.9 TRILLION and equity of NEGATIVE $82 Billion. They are also insolvent.

Now for the best part. These insolvent pieces of shit have reported fake accounting created profits of $175 Billion over the last two and half years and then supposedly “paid back” $213 billion to the U.S. Treasury, falsely reducing the reported annual deficits. When Obama and his minions tout the declining deficits, remember the declines are nothing but Fannie and Freddie smoke and mirrors declines.

The Wall Street/Federal Reserve created fake housing recovery peaked six months ago. Prices are headed south. Fannie and Freddie’s toxic balance sheets are filled with worthless mortgage loans that are going to become even more worthless. The farce will continue until morale improves.

 

FACEBOOK IS MANIPULATING & CONDITIONING YOU

Welcome to the Brave New World where you are conditioned, manipulated, and entertained by unseen men seeking control, power and wealth. You’ve been conditioned to love your servitude. Bernays and Huxley had you pegged 80 years ago. Facebook will tell you how you should feel today.

 

I bet you thought Facebook tweaked your feed to provide you with “relevant” information you might find useful.

What if you found out that instead they “tweaked” it in an attempt to determine whether they could manipulate your emotional state?

Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was published inThe Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. It shows how Facebook data scientists tweaked the algorithm that determines which posts appear on users’ news feeds—specifically, researchers skewed the number of positive or negative terms seen by randomly selected users. Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can!

There seems to be this idea that you can get “something for nothing”, or the “something” you “pay” is in some way beneficial.  But what if it’s not?  What if it’s intended to manipulate how you think and respond to events around you?  What if that manipulation doesn’t end with an advertising message trying to get you to buy one product over another?

A rather liberal reading of Facebook’s terms would probably lead you to conclude that you agreed to this when you signed up for an account.  But this much is certain — you weren’t told about it in advance, and you didn’t explicitly consent.

This particular instance came to light because it led to a published research paper.  How much of this is going on in other venues entirely in secret, covered by the same sort of “policy agreement”, without your consent?

My best guess: A whole lot of it.

NO MARKET MANIPULATION HERE – RIGHT?

I’m sure this is a coincidence. The Fed and their Wall Street puppet masters certainly don’t coordinate their buying, selling, and suppression of gold prices. That would be immoral and wrong, just like front running customers with HFT supercomputers. They would never do that. 🙂