“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays – Propaganda
I find the quote above by Edward Bernays to be a perfect synopsis for everything that has come to pass over the last century. The world has become increasingly controlled by an invisible government of greedy Wall Street bankers, shadowy billionaires, immoral big business, crooked politicians, and the military industrial complex, with mammoth media conglomerates, purposefully using propaganda to manipulate and mold the minds of the masses in order to exert power and control over our lives. He wrote those words in 1928, when the only available forms of manipulation were newspapers and radio. Bernays would be ecstatic and delighted with the implements available today used by our corporate fascist state controllers as they deliver the electronic messaging guiding the public mind.
He never dreamed of television, the internet, social media, and the ability of corporations like Google, in full cooperation with the government, to censor the truth, while feeding misinformation and state sanctioned propaganda to the masses in such an efficient and effective mode. Compelling the masses to worship at the altar of technology, while idolizing the evil men running our largest banks and corporations, has been a prodigious success for the shadowy ruling power and their mass media propaganda agents. Mike Lofgren, former congressional insider and author of The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless and the Middle Class Got Shafted, describes these mysterious perfidious men as the Deep State:
Yes, there is another government concealed behind the one that is visible at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue, a hybrid entity of public and private institutions ruling the country according to consistent patterns in season and out, connected to, but only intermittently controlled by, the visible state whose leaders we choose.
My analysis of this phenomenon is not an exposé of a secret, conspiratorial cabal; the state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, and its operators mainly act in the light of day. Nor can this other government be accurately termed an “establishment.”
All complex societies have an establishment, a social network committed to its own enrichment and perpetuation. In terms of its scope, financial resources and sheer global reach, the American hybrid state, the Deep State, is in a class by itself. That said, it is neither omniscient nor invincible. The institution is not so much sinister (although it has highly sinister aspects) as it is relentlessly well entrenched.
Far from being invincible, its failures, such as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, are routine enough that it is only the Deep State’s protectiveness towards its higher-ranking personnel that allows them to escape the consequences of their frequent ineptitude. – Mike Lofgren, Anatomy of the Deep State
The techno-narcissistic American public has been manipulated into falsely believing their iGadgets, Facebook, Twitter, and thousands of Apps have made them smarter, freer and safer. As Goethe proclaimed, the majority of willfully ignorant Americans are hopelessly enslaved, while falsely believing they are free. Our controllers, through relentless propaganda and misinformation pounded into our brains by the government controlled education system and unrelenting messaging by their mass media co-conspirators, have molded the minds and opinions of the vast majority into believing government and mega-corporations are beneficial and indispensable to their well-being.
The overwhelming majority have been conditioned like rats to believe anything their keepers feed them. In order to keep society running smoothly, with little dissent, thought, opposition or questioning, the Deep State utilizes all the tools at its disposal to manipulate, influence, coerce, bully and bribe the populace into passive submission. They’ve trained us to love our servitude. The Inner Party sees this as essential to their continued control, power and enrichment, while keeping the Proles impoverished, ignorant, fearful and distracted with bread and circuses.
The key weapon in their arsenal of obedience is technology and the mega-corporations that control the flow of information disseminated to the hypnotized mindless masses. The United States has devolved into a society where a few powerful unelected unaccountable men, controlling the levers of government, education, finance, and media are able to formulate the opinions, tastes, beliefs, and fears of the masses through the effective and subtle use of technology. They have tenaciously and unflinchingly fashioned a technology addiction among the masses in order to keep them distracted, entertained and uninterested in thinking, gaining knowledge, or comprehending their roles and responsibilities as citizens in a purportedly democratic republic.
The mass media, along with their corporate compatriots – Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Yahoo, Facebook and Google, gather vast amounts of data, emails, phone calls, texts, internet searches, spending habits, credit information, passwords, videos and private personal information from an agreeable, gullible and trusting populace. Americans have a seemingly infinite capacity for blindly counting on the government and the corporatocracy to use this data in an honorable and ethical manner. But, as Edward Snowden has revealed, the corporate fascist state is collecting every shred of data on every American in a systematic and thorough way. We have voluntarily surrendered our privacy, liberties, and freedoms to mega-corporations like Google and their techno-brethren, who then willingly collaborate with Big Brother NSA and allow unfettered access to this private information.
The U.S. Constitution along with the First and Fourth Amendments are meaningless to these deceitful entities. Our freedoms have dissipated at the same rate we have adopted the technological “innovations” of Facebook, Twitter, and Google. We are being monitored, scrutinized, tracked and controlled by the technology we have exuberantly purchased from the mega-corporations stripping us of our freedom. Technological “progress” has actually resulted in a colossal regression in freedom, liberty, independence, choice, and intelligent questioning of authority. We having willingly submitted to the google shackles of tyranny in exchange for being entertained and amused by Angry Birds, Words with Friends, facebooking, texting, tweeting, posting selfies and statuses, and linking in.
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” – Aldous Huxley – Ends and Means
David versus the Nameless, Faceless Goliath Robot
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair – I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
My enlightening encounter with the nameless, faceless $52 billion “non-evil doing” behemoth entity known as Google, over the last month, has clarified my understanding of how the invisible governing body of the Deep State uses the power of the all-mighty dollar to suppress dissent and obscure the truth. My inconsequential libertarian minded blog that attracts 15,000 visitors per day has been up and running for the last five years. I started my own blog because I didn’t want to deal with ongoing censorship of my articles by Wall Street sellout blogs such as Seeking Alpha, Minyanville, and Financial Sense.
Their salary/living depended upon them not publishing articles critical of Wall Street and the government. My intention has never been to make a living from my blog. Any donations or incidental advertising revenue allowed me to upgrade my server capacity to handle more visitors. I’m certainly not averse to making money, but the sole purpose of my blog has been to try and open people’s eyes to Wall Street criminality, political corruption, media propaganda, and the perilous financial state of our country. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised when Google approved my website for ads in December.
I will admit my site has been essentially an un-moderated free for all going back to the very beginning in 2009. I do not believe in censorship or false civility. I attempt to induce anger and outrage with every article and post. These are desperate times and anger is the appropriate reaction. The country is on a burning platform of unsustainable policies and practices which threaten the future of our society. I’m pissed off and I want others to be just as pissed off. The regular commenters are intelligent, critical, opinionated, and not afraid to unload with both barrels on fellow regulars or newbies. The language is often strong and the posting of pictures and images adds to the frat house like atmosphere. Regular contributors include doctors, farmers, engineers, business owners, accountants, teachers, waitresses, students, homemakers, soldiers, spies, and retirees. The wild-west nature of the site is not a secret to anyone who has ventured a peek. I assume Google did a review of the site before approving it for their Adsense program.
I started running Google ads on my site in early December. My site operated as it always had. The $30 per day in ad revenue was welcome, as it helped defray my server and security expenses. I experience a surge in visitors whenever I publish an article that gets picked up by fellow truth telling alternative media websites like Zero Hedge, 321 Gold, Washington’s Blog, Jesse’s Cafe Americain, Steve Quayle, Monty Pelerin, Doug Ross, Market Oracle, Dollar Collapse, TF Metals and several others. I published an article called The Retail Death Rattle on January 20 which obliterated the false government and mainstream media recovery storyline and skewered the delusional incompetent CEOs of mega-retailers. It struck a nerve as it generated the highest visitor count in history for my site. It was even picked up by Wall Street Journal owned Marketwatch. My articles are highly critical of Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, corrupt Washington politicians and the feckless captured legacy media, but they usually fly under the radar of the ruling class. On January 22 Google disabled my ads for “policy violations”. This is the vague non-specific description provided by the non-human policing bot:
Scraped content
It’s important for a site displaying AdSense to offer significant value to the user by providing unique and relevant content, and not to place ads on auto-generated pages or pages with little to no original content. This may include, but is not limited to:
· copying portions of text content from other sources
· websites dedicated to embedded videos from other hosts
· websites with gibberish content that makes no sense or seems auto-generated
· templated or pre-generated websites that provide duplicate content to users.
Sexual content
Google ads may not be placed on pages with adult or mature content. This includes, but is not limited to, pages with images or videos containing:
· Strategically covered nudity
· Sheer or see-through clothing
· Lewd or provocative poses
· Close-ups of breasts, buttocks, or crotches
Over the last five years I have received exactly ZERO complaints from other websites or authors about re-posting their articles, with full attribution and links, on my website. No one can accuse my site of not having unique and relevant content. I have permission to post articles from Zero Hedge, Charles Hugh Smith, Michael Snyder, Jim Kunstler, David Stockman, John Mauldin, Doug Casey, Paul Rosenberg, Fred Reed and dozens of other brilliant truthful journalists detailing our societal decay. Was there some Kate Upton bikini Gifs and provocative Salma Hayak pictures scattered within the 200,000 comments made on the site in the last five years? Guilty as charged. It seems Google reviewers can’t see the hypocrisy of running ads to meet young bikini clad Asian girls, while disabling ads because there are a few bikini pictures on the website. I suspected my article had drawn the Eye of Sauron in my direction and this was the response.
Speaking truth to power during these perilous times has repercussions. But I decided to make a good faith effort to follow their rules.
I had made almost 15,000 posts over the last five years. Over the next week I scanned the site and archived posts that included articles from mainstream media websites, along with a hundred or so bikini pictures. You never deal with a human being when attempting to satisfy the Google Gestapo. Identical canned appeal denial responses are issued from Google Central with no clarification or effort to help you understand their reasoning.
Hello,
Thank you for providing us with additional information about your site. However, after thoroughly reviewing theburningplatform.com and taking your feedback into consideration, we’re unable to re-enable ad serving to your site at this time, as your site appears to still be in violation.
When making changes, please note that the URL mentioned in your policy notification may be just one example and that the same violations may exist on other pages of your website. Appropriate changes must be made across your entire website before ad serving can be enabled on your site again.
If you’d like to have your site reconsidered for participation in the AdSense program, please review our program policies and make any necessary changes to your webpages.
We appreciate your cooperation.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
There must have been some miscommunication within the Google Gestapo, as the ads were re-enabled after one week and my third appeal. A newbie, who didn’t get the memo, must have mistakenly activated my ads. Regular commenters and contributors were confused by what they could and couldn’t post on the site, as was I. The iron fist of the Google Stasi came down once again within a week, with the identical policy violation notice. I made the assumption that since the site was declared in compliance as of January 29, I only had to address anything posted since that date.
I had purged the site of any and all risqué pictures, so I knew that wasn’t a real issue. I thoroughly reviewed every post made since January 29 and archived or edited them to leave no doubt I was meeting Google’s vague guidelines. I continued to have my appeals rejected. I then went back a year and archived hundreds of other posts. By the fourth appeal rejection, I realized I would never meet their standard because it wasn’t really about violating Google content policies. It was my libertarian, anti-government, anti-Wall Street, anti-Mega-Corporation, anti-Surveillance State views that were the real issue. They were attempting to make me “not understand” or write about the creeping corporate fascist paradigm overtaking the country by making my Google salary dependent on “not understanding”.
Once I understood this truth, I was set free to provoke and prod the nameless, faceless Google entity and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt their true purpose. Their appeal form allows 1,000 characters for your response. Along with the actions I had taken, I began to question the integrity of the Google apparatchik “reviewer”, as it was clear the site was not in violation. I had archived over a thousand posts and tens of thousands of comments. I challenged the man behind the Google curtain to provide me with proof the site was still in violation. I must have struck a nerve, as out of the blue I received a new violation notice.
Violent or disturbing content
AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with violent or disturbing content, including sites with gory text or images.
Now this was funny. My site focuses on the financial, political, and social decay of our country. It in no way advocates or promotes violence. It has no graphic images or gory videos. If Google is attempting to suppress videos of revolutions occurring in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Syria from being seen by citizens of the world, their credibility is zero. If Google is attempting to suppress videos of police brutality against citizens or the police state locking down an entire city while violating the Fourth Amendment, they prove themselves to be nothing more than a fascist propaganda tool of the State. This violation notice was laughable, but I decided to call their bluff one last time. I spent three days and archived 14,000 out of the 15,000 posts ever made on my site. All that remained were my main articles, published on dozens of other sites with Google ads active, and original content produced by myself or other approved contributors. There was no violent content, scraped content, or sexual content on my website.
My ninth and final appeal was denied. I then proceeded to write an FU Google post on my website and inform my readers and contributors they were unshackled from the Google Evil Empire of Censorship. I’m in the process of restoring all of the posts I had archived. Some might argue that Google is just exercising their rights under our free market capitalism system. I would argue free market capitalism does not exist today. The unholy alliance of big banks, big corporations, big military and big media has created a state run by the few for the benefit of the few. They use their control of the purse strings to manipulate minds, crush dissent, and censor through bullying and bribery.
Once I mentally liberated myself from their financial control, I was able to see their game. They essentially wanted me to purge the site of every anti-establishment example of free speech and First Amendment rights I had ever written, in order to kneel before the altar of $$$ in the Church of Google. Google would be perfectly fine if I converted my website into a chat-fest where I discussed the details of the upcoming Kim and Kanye wedding, pondered deep issues regarding the benefits of gay marriage, conducted polls on who The Bachelor will choose to be his betrothed this season, mused about what Hollywood stars will wear at the Academy Awards, and debated who will win the fourteenth season of American Idol. The Google money would flow freely as I contributed to the dumbing down and sedation of the masses. I have chosen not be a Judas that sells out my readers and the American public for 30 pieces of fiat to the Google Pharisees and the American corporate fascist surveillance empire.
This was not the first time the Deep State attempted to silence my anarchistic viewpoint. On June 5 Edward Snowden, American hero and patriot, released the first of thousands of documents detailing the traitorous actions of the NSA, Obama, Congress, the Judicial branch, and the corporate media. Snowden revealed the government, in cooperation with Google, Verizon, Facebook and a myriad of other technology/media companies, was collecting metadata and conducting mass surveillance of every American in violation of the Fourth Amendment, a clearly illegal form of search and seizure.
On June 19 I penned an article titled Who Are the Real Traitors? In the article I declared Obama, James Clapper, Dick Cheney, Diane Feinstein, Peter King and a plethora of other politicians, faux journalists, and talking media heads as the real traitors of the American people. The article achieved wide distribution through my usual channels and must have again drawn attention in Mordor on the Potomac. Two days later anyone with McAfee or Norton security were receiving false warnings about a malicious virus on my site. Long time readers in the military informed me the site was now blocked by the Department of Defense as a dangerous website. Other long-time readers informed me their corporations were now blocking access to the site. The site was inundated by denial of service attacks. It slowed to a crawl and was virtually inaccessible. I’m sure it was just a coincidence.
I was forced to switch server companies and hire an anti-hacking company to protect the site, thereby increasing my cost to run the site by a factor of 10. Even though the companies I hired confirmed there were no malicious viruses on the site, Norton continued to scare Internet Explorer users from reading my site for the next eight months. How the $8 billion Symantec (owns Norton) entity could rationalize this false warning on only $80 billion Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, seems suspicious to me. The warning would not appear if you accessed the site with Mozilla Firefox, even if you employed Norton security. Norton makes it virtually impossible to appeal their false danger rating. I’m sure thousands of people were scared away from my website by these unaccountable corporate entities, working on behalf of the all-powerful state. Lofgren’s Deep State or Bernays’ Invisible Government hate the truth. They despise anyone who attempts to open the eyes of the public to their deception, criminality, and propaganda.
Google has become a tool and partner of the Deep State. Enrichment of the state within the state is their sole purpose. Google’s Don’t Be Evil motto, originated when they were a fledgling company in 2000, has become a farce as they have descended into the netherworld as the information police for the ruling despots. They are now a humungous corporation with near monopoly control over the flow of information, searches, emails, and internet advertising. They know more about you and your habits than you do. They attempt to control freedom of speech at the point of a wire transfer. Fall into line or no advertising blood money for you. Not only do they suppress viewpoints through advertising revenue bullying, they manipulate their search engine results to hide the truth from the masses. Google search engines filter, block and bury blog posts that contain content or information it deems incompatible with the message of its corporate fascist co-conspirators. Its oppressive corporate practices on behalf of its evil partners are an abridgment of the freedom of speech, perversion of the truth, and active attempt to mold the minds of the masses.
One of the most intelligent and cleverest contributors to my website, Nick (aka Stucky), summed up the evil entity known as Google in this pointed comment on my website:
There is an Entity out there who knows every search you ever made.
The Entity knows all about your emails, the content and address.
The Entity knows what you buy online and how often.
The Entity is developing software to predict what you will buy next.
The Entity can now even watch you, and know where you are, and what you are doing.
The Entity even knows your habits.
The Entity has enormous resources and stacks of cash.
The Entity shares your information with Lesser Entities … and also The Big Evil Entity that rules us all.
The Entity makes the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, and their ilk look like Lightweight Chumps.
The Entity hates you. You are just a means to an end.
The Entity is building a Profile all about you.
The Entity will soon know you better than you know yourself.
Welcome to Google, the most evil Entity on the planet.
As a society we have fallen asleep at the wheel. We’ve allowed ourselves to be lulled into complacency, distracted by minutia, mesmerized by technology, turned into consumers by corporations, pacified by financial gurus and Ivy League economists, and fearful of our own shadows. Surveillance, censorship and propaganda are the tools of the oppressive state. Free speech and truthful revelations about the Deep State are a danger in the eyes of our oppressors. Words retain power and can change the hearts and minds of a tyrannized citizenry willing to listen. V’s speech to London in the movie V for Vendetta, with slight modification, captures the essence of how Google fits into the evil matrix we inhabit today.
Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?
Cruelty and injustice…intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance, coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told…if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War. Terror. Disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you and in your panic you turned to the government and their banking/corporate patrons. They promised you order. They promised you peace. And all they demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.
I choose not to silently and obediently consent to the will of the Deep State. Google will not silence me. We are in the midst of a Fourth Turning and I will try to do my small part in sweeping away the existing social order and trying to replace it with a system that honors and follows the U.S. Constitution. In Part 2 of this expose of evil, I’ll provide further proof of Google’s hypocrisy, censorship, and willing participation in spying on the American people. I’m beginning to understand the major conflict which will drive this Fourth Turning – The People vs The Corporate Fascist State.
WARNING: The National Security Agency is recording and storing this communication as part of its unlawful spying program on all Americans … and people worldwide. The people who created the NSA spying program say this communication – and any responses – can and will be used against the American people at any time in the future should unelected bureaucrats within the government decide to persecute us for political reasons. Private information in digital communications is being shared between Google, Facebook, Verizon and the government. It will be used against you when it suits their purposes.
A compelling story Administrator.
I’d say that this article is as good as a left hook to the Google midsection.
Like all TBP readers, I’m waiting for your second post, your good right cross, that will have them reeling.
It suppose it was only a matter of time. Silicon valley billionaires join the rest of the oligarchs in the country, the plutocrats, the fascists. Used to be the Silicon valley boys were on the side of internet freedom and privacy rights. Then the NSA and the government came calling, probably threatening to shut them down in total unless they played ball. And they were offered protection, inclusion, a chance to be on the “inside”, one of the elites, the rulers. Rich man always wants to be king, and the king isn’t satisfied until he rules everything.
I have no doubt Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook were all told their competitors would be wiped out, that if they cooperated, they’d never have to worry again. And I’m sure they hesitated at first, trying vainly to remember if they had some good left in them, that they once said they didn’t want to be evil. Well, no longer. If you sell your soul to the devil, you play by his tune. Silicon valley has no soul left, and, if you’ve noticed, no competition left. They sold their soul to the devil. Game over.
And now we are all feeling the effects. What once seemed innocent and pure is now like a viscous snake that one day may come back to bite you. We are seeing the censorship now, but it’s only the beginning. Any blog or website the government doesn’t like will be shut down before long. You’ll either play by their rules, or you will be gone. It’s really a just another example of limitless greed, power and control. Only with technology, it’s so much more isn’t it? Get people addicted to their “smart phone”, hilarious misnomer, it’s makes people into imbecilic zombies. Get them addicted, using their own vanity and narcissism, to Facebook. Get them addicted, just like any addicts, and you have them for life. And then control what they can see, read, and watch, and presto, instant fascism and control. The government had to own Silicon valley, and now they do. Maybe not the companies themselves, but they own them. They sold their souls to the devil.
Undoubtedly fear was a big part of why the spying was allowed to develop. At this point, laziness is probably enough to ensure its continuation. People – especially young people – seem resigned that there is no more privacy. They’d rather give up their privacy than their Android or I-phone. We probably should have known all along that any company that publicly touted its “don’t be evil” slogan would really operate under “always be evil”.
Hell yes! Go get em Admin!!!!! Love this. I hate google and I am going to post a link to this on linkedIn as my own sort of way of using the technology to spread the truth.
Pretty pics for you from my blog:
http://dallasrichard.tumblr.com
Use the archive feature for heaps of fun. There are well over ten thousand images……beautiful stuff if I may say so myself.
Wow, thanks for the nice shout-out.
Dammit, why did you have to post this in the evening?? I’ve been on and off — mostly on — a good portion of the day and Ms Freud will do a Bobitt on me if I spend even one more second here tonight (she’s taking a leak right now … haha)
Will read it first thing in the morning. Looks real goooooooood though.
Crap .. she’s do tinkling ……. BYE!
I am using the TOR browser with startpage. No, its not perfect but it keeps 95% or so of the big brothers little brothers out of my internet tracks.
Ironically if you type boobs or porn into Googles urchin engine you will not be denied Salma or Kate..or that Merkels cleavage, thanks for that Stucky, the image haunts me.
As for Bernays, typical of those self-professed elite to think that only they know how the mind works. Fact is they know more about their ass than anything else.
Google once was good, now with Glassholes running about, Google robots and whatever other patents they created or bought and using a pathetic paycheck to twist blog owners arms, enough.
I have no use for them.
It will be interesting to see if sites that normally publish my articles, but depend on Google Ads for their revenue, will post my article. It will reveal their true nature.
I give Google a week, two at tops, before it is back BEGGING the Admin to allow them to reinstate the ads. The fallout from this will be too much for them to handle.
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Seriously, Admin – great job. Fuck those motherfuckers.
If enough people tell Google to jam it, maybe things will change. The sheeple will not be quick to move, however.
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”
Samuel Adams
Admin
I suspect this will end up being your most important post ever. Thanks for some more education, enlightenment, and rage.
Google is already trying to tell their Google Glass owners how to react when people ask them about it.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/18/5423686/google-tells-glass-users-dont-be-glassholes
And these Glassholes paid about 1500 bucks to be the first users. In fact I was watching the Pentagon channel and some salad chest was wearing them while speaking, strutting about the platform. Weird. Kept twisting his head touching the Glasshole. Eyes wandering.
Turned it off. Beer, please.
Ms Freud will do a Bobitt on me if I spend even one more second here tonight (she’s taking a leak right now … haha) Stuck
But is that not how Bobbit got caught sneaking back in?
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I see clammy has worn off her hangover enough to troll me with a few thumbs down. Attagirl! That is the spirit!
“Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends,” Google says. [from url verge above]
Unhuh. Says the creeps that allows the creeps to creep.
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Fat, Drunk and Stupid is no way to go through life…. = Google heads that can’t think for themselves.
Loved this read…. ranks right up there with fat drunk and stupid…..
keep up the good works !!!!!
Good stuff in this article…Google is even more evil than Monsanto, and that’s saying something!
just in case some people can’t make the connection of my comment….
Turning America into a Nation of Idiots, Fat, Drunk and Stupid is No Way to go Through Life
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article12695.html
cheers
Admin, don’t know if you read all the posts, but I tried to warn you. These people are NOT who they appear to be. It’s NSA-lite.
Wow one of the best ever.
New moniker, EF?
Jim, great article. As always. Did you see that Google actually directs people to higher-priced items when shopping online than other search engines? Google advertisers get preferential ranking in search results, even when other vendors have lower prices… but you wouldn’t know it because they don’t show up in the search results.
Lots of other examples out there of how Google is shafting users, all while tracking their every movement and selling their information to big companies. Anyone can use another search engine; I highly recommend it.
Nothing will change until we make congress do it constitutional duties.Congress must take back control and ownership of the currency and then issue it debt free.Then abolish the Federal RESERVE and abolish fractional reserve banking.Return the nation back to sound money.That’s a lot but it must be done.This fiat money system is what stands behind so much corruption In government and business.Google is a face but look what stands behind it .The national security system and military industrial complex financed by central banking.
Almost forgot ,good job admin
Oddest thing is – I never, ever, used Gobble; they always seemed to sound sanctimonious and phony with their bleating about “doing no evil”. BC-LR to all
Dammit, just when I was about to taper off TBP and work on the old marriage, JQ turns up the heat on The Man. Maybe we can defer the marriage encounter until the fall…
If you are using Firefox you can download that Ghostery ad-on and it will reveal all of the google ads, beacons and widgets including google ad sense that are embedded on every site you visit. Once you disable the google bullshit on one site I believe it auto disables it on subsequent sites where you might encounter it.
Fantastic article admin! Get yourself a back up computer as I predict you may begin experiencing problems on your primary machine. It’s going to be very interesting to see if/how this affects TBP from here on out. Can’t wait for part two!
I_S
It was a small, common stone. You would never have expected much from it, as it was indistinguishable from the millions of stones just like it. But, one day the Master picked it up and put it in his pouch. On the day of battle the small stone flew from the sling with great speed, pin-prick accuracy, and buried itself deep in the forehead of the evil entity. And the Tormentor of the people, Goliath, fell dead.
By the grace of god, may this article be that stone.
One can dream! YOU can help make it happen. Already this morning I have sent a mass email to everyone in my email-list titled — “If you’re my friend you will read this”. I hope all three people read it. A little guilt goes a long way. It takes but 60 seconds or less to do mass emails. Imagine the snowball effect if most of us did this, and then some of the recipients did it, and so on. “The witch is dead! The witch is dead!” Come dream with me …. go do some emailing.
“Google once was good.” ——– Anonymous (above)
So was Lucifer, the Bearer of Light, the Bright Morning Star.
May both be cast to Outer Darkness where there is great wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Seeking the Truth and fighting the Deep State is like trying to chop down a Redwood with a small axe.
After enough blows, even a Redwood can be brought down.
Admin,
Good Rant! Did your best.
Hello
Upon further review, and much hand-wringing, we have decided to give you specific reasons as to why we were forced to block ads on your site. The following lists the perpetrator and our grievance;
1) “Nonanonymous” —– excessive religious gobbledegook resulting in readers mass suicides
2) “Stephanie” —- excessive whining and bitching resulting in readers mass suicides
3) “bb” —– just on principal … we have no idea what the fuck he’s talking about either
4) “AWD” —- for violating Obama’s Fatties Are Really Terrific (FART) Act of 2013
5) “sensetti” —- posting pictures of bleeding assholes (we’re not talking about Democrats)
6) “SSS” — Selma pics. What part of “Close-ups of breasts” don’t you understand??
Nevertheless, we are willing to compromise. Simply ban — call it “shunning” if it makes you feel better — the first three individuals above, delete just this ONE heinous anti-google article, and we’ll call it even Stevens. You’ll get your precious fucking thirty bucks a day back, and we can continue serving (heh-heh) the Amurican people.
We appreciate your cooperation.
Sincerely,
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The Google AdSense Team
WOW!! Admin is already winning!!
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Unfortunately Google is a hard one to tackle from a public perception standpoint. Their rights to privacy are nebulous things, however the lightning fast internet provided by Google lights up their brains, especially considering how piss poor internet service is in this country.
Still, fuck ’em. They had the opportunity to take the high road years ago, and instead got in bed with the man and commenced bending over the general public.
My wife has been spreading the Fourth Turning message around, its gaining a lot of traction in our friend’s circle.
Most of these jack legs were staunch Obama supporters just a few years ago, and now can’t stand the man and hate Obamacare.
There is hope, if only a tiny bit.
“Unfortunately Google is a hard one to tackle from a public perception standpoint. ……….. There is hope, if only a tiny bit.” ———— TPC
One never knows which tiny snowflake caused the avalanche. Of the billions of internet articles, will this one be that snowflake? We’ll see.
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AN ANCIENT TAOIST PARABLE
A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away.
His neighbors said, “I’m so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”
The man just said, “We’ll see.”
A few days later, his horse came back with twenty wild horses following. The man and his son corraled all 21 horses.
His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”
The man just said, “We’ll see.”
One of the wild horses kicked the man’s only son, breaking both his legs.
His neighbors said, “I’m so sorry. This is such bad news. You must be so upset.”
The man just said, “We’ll see.”
The country went to war, and every able-bodied young man was drafted to fight. The war was terrible and killed every young man, but the farmer’s son was spared, since his broken legs prevented him from being drafted.
His neighbors said, “Congratulations! This is such good news. You must be so happy!”
The man just said, “We’ll see.”
Wow Admin………..excellent foot sweep of Google.
I received the malicious site warnings for TBP too………happy to hear nothing was wrong (I entered the site anyway).
Your posts,as always…….are stellar.
Admin, one of your finest moments. It also shines the spotlight that Google is the largest PUBLISHER in the world write now. They are the gate keepers of small journalism. If you don’t agree, your writing doesn’t even show up in their SEO. They also keep changing SEO every years to bury bloggers so they don’t show up on searches.
Now how about some Hayek pictures…………..
Great post Jim.
Great post Jim, Norton tells me every time I come on that it blocked an attack from you. You should be honored. P.S. Stop attacking my laptop!
Wyoming Mike
That is fascinating, because Norton now admits the site is safe, after I wrote them a nasty email. Here is proof:
https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=theburningplatform.com
Why do people still take Norton seriously? I delete that shit off of every new computer I purchase.
This will not be a profound, thought provoking comment, I just want to say that sir, was an excellent article.
Mordor on the Potomac……what a great line
It is hard to believe Napoleons maxim (“Never atrribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence”) when the errors are so systematicaly one-sided.
They play the game of fire’n’ice, giving something then taking it away. Good cop, bad cop.
“Why do people still take Norton seriously? I delete that shit off of every new computer I purchase.”
—————- Stephanie
Hey, I just saw on a Job Board that the Norton Corporate Offices have a job opening in their employee cafeteria ….. at the Salad Prep station. I’m not kidding. Some of the perks —- “$80k per year / come and go as you want / be your own boss / Boomer-Free environment”
Stucky- Thanks, but I already have a job. Good to know you are staying current with salad tossing opportunities. You may have to fund your own retirement soon.
I first came upon the Admin’s blogs on Financial Sense. This was the first time I ran into someone who thought almost exactly the way I do. The more I read his articles plus other blogs by other authors for balance, the more the true picture of our economy emerged. But I had already realized this long before – just not with the level of detail and style of the Admin. One example was a man by the name of Ron Hera who wrote in November 2011 a article entitled “How the US will become a third World Country” in two parts. A very detailed and thorough article.
Those who visit here and stay already understand the serious problems we face. Neither the Admin or anyone else can be expected to wake most others up by their own efforts. All those who largely agree with commentary on this site (myself included – and I AM trying) must keep attempting to inform and enlighten others in every way possible even though the time may be very short to avoid economic catastrophe.
There’s nothing more nerve-wracking then being fairly certain about where we are headed as a country and facing the daunting odds of trying to wake people up to try to avoid disaster.
Keep making the effort everyone. This is certainly better than just watching the train wreck.
Comments on some blogs say Go-ogle is a secret gov black op masquerading as a company, a public-facing NSA honeypot. Mathaba has also run articles on Go-ogle and Tracebook.
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=630662
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=630044
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=632126
Only a black op could get so “geopolitical” as Go-ogle.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/council-on-foreign-relations-meets-with.html
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=51126
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/06/296865/google-beyond-the-cia-and-espionage-factory/
Or work so hard on the Rollerball future…
http://www.book-grab.com/
Anyone using Apple or Go-ogle needs a head check. Look at the latest Apple “bug/feature” which bypasses web page SSL for Lucifer’s spooks.
http://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-google-chrome-can-listen-to-your-conversations/
“Welcome to Google, the most evil Entity on the planet.” —- me
I’m just curious if you guys believe that’s true, partially true, or not at all.
Me? I actually firmly believe it …. Or, at a minimum they are at even keel with the NSA and DHS and other alphabet data collection agencies. I’m reminded of this humorous Seinfeld clip where Newman says “When you control mail you control information!!:
Google is where the world’s greatest evil is done. It’s not in the porn studios, in prisons, in the crime ridden streets of America, or even in the drone bombing of innocent civilians abroad … heinous as all those may be.
Evil is conceived, nurtured, and then given life in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks, by Ivy educated geniuses plotting algorithms to rip from you perhaps the only thing your truly own .. your own identity, by raging madmen you never see who do not need to raise their voices to crush your soul. Hell is not some fiery pit down below but a Corporate Office of glass and steel here above.
There’s no non-government entity I despise more than Google. (Monsanto comes a close second.) Maybe I’m letting my hate blind me.
Google is a rat hole of malignant anti American despots. Using the Joue Dollar like a psychopath killer.
They belong in the sewer of humanity.
I stopped using Google over a year ago.
Use- Ixquick or Startpage, they do not record your IP Address.
I still have gmail. It will be difficult, but not impossible, to switch. And switch I MUST … seeing how those cockfuks store it.
I did research today. Found something called hushmail.
Anybody use this? Are there other SAFE e-mails you use?
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