Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Friday, February 8, 2019
American Psychosis: Flag Worship
"haha north koreans are so crazy oh hold on a second i gotta sing the america song and salute my television"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
It's NOT JUST The Money It's What They Do With It: Neuropsychology And Corporate Electioneering
.Every one is acting sooooo surprised.
Lets get something straight...
The courts ruled corporations have 'personhood' hundreds of years ago in England and they STILL rule that way in the United States.
Therefore, as-is, corporations have the right to 'freedom of expression'
How you spend money IS a form of that.
Any questions?
Look... That's just the publicly visible tip of the monetary-electoral iceberg anyway... The fact that corporations use their money to influence elections.
Lets talk about HOW they'll spend the money to do that now that corporations can more freely 'contribute' to candidates and electoral campaigns.
Hint... It won't be spent on Get-Out-The-Vote phone banks for the candidates.
It will be invested in advertising.
CAREFULLY crafted political neuro-psychological advertising.
Designed with your mind in mind.
Think of it however you like... in awe or abject terror.
A nation of sheep being led to the socio-cultural slaughter willingly.
The next time someone asks you why you believe something
political, or why you think Coke is better than Pepsi... consider:
The Real Deal... Neuro-Advertising:
Advertisers and Politicians Hunt for the "Buy-Button" in Your Brain (Buy! Buy! Buy! [Vote!])
Using a form of marketing known as neuromarketing, corporations and politicians are using MRIs, EEGs, and other brain-scan and medical technology to craft irresistible media messages designed to shift buying habits, political beliefs and voting patterns, as described in the World Business Academy's video "Spellcasters.".
By measuring activity in different parts of the brain in response to an ad or other media message, advertisers and political consultants can create advertising campaigns that tap into the pre-conscious brain. The idea is to assess central nervous system response to certain ads, the better to skirt the viewers' rational thought.
Since the dawn of commerce, sellers have tried to figure out how to best pitch their wares, grab attention and close the deal. Sales pitches have always been designed to create a willing buyer, often by creating needs and wants and then offering up a new product to satisfy them.
Clever and unscrupulous sales pitches are nothing new. They helped create a nation of smokers until litigation revealed that tobacco companies hid known risks. The court cases led to big damage awards, new warning requirements and, finally, fewer smokers.
The use of music, images and emotion to manipulate the consumer and voter is also nothing new. But neuromarketing involves a degree of intrusiveness and manipulation that needs to be exposed and stopped. Consumers pushed back when advertisers turned to subliminal advertising - the practice of flashing an image for a tiny fraction of a second, too fast for the cognitive brain to process.
It's time to push back again. [In Full]
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Fear & Loathing! Ominous Music Heard Throughout U.S. Sends Nation Into Panic
...or is that the OTHER way around?
Either way... Be Afraid.... Be VERY afraid!
Ominous Music Heard Throughout U.S. Sends Nation Into Panic
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Thought for the day: "Who really established the idea that a society could benefit hugely just by lying to itself, or simply pretending?"
{Click the thumbnails for full size images):
The American victory over manifest evil in World War Two was so total that there was no one else left on earth to compete with in making and selling useful articles...
...at least for a while. And it produced a middle class so well-paid that it could express itself in a vast spewage of plastic and leisure across the land.The human race will look back on this society with wonder and nausea for whatever remains of its time on Earth. For at least twenty years, though, this way of life has been running on fumes, inertia, and promissory notes.
The amazing thing is that these life-extension strategies worked, especially the past ten years when there was really nothing left besides a Ponzi structure of interlocked swindles and rackets.
When the time comes when we do look back to understand what went wrong, I think we'll see that the Woodstock generation went off the rails in 1980, with the election of the actor, Ronald Reagan, who really established the idea that a society could benefit hugely just by lying to itself, or simply pretending...
[In Full at Clusterfuck Nation]
Friday, June 5, 2009
Soldier Suicide: Army Inspector General - Use of unlicensed psychologists in Iraq did not violate Army regulations (but does now!)
Three weeks before the soldier's death, an unlicensed psychologist asked by the soldier's captain to evaluate him, said in a report that Scheuerman was "capable of claiming mental illness" to manipulate superiors and sent him back to his unit.Meanwhile, the Army inspector general says the father's complaints are unfounded...
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Scheuerman's behavior raised enough alarms that when a call came over the unit's radios that there had been a death, one soldier told investigators he immediately knew who it was who had died.
"The premise that someone at (Medical Command) made the decision to deploy providers regardless of their licensure is without merit," the investigation said."
HOWEVER, "The military changed its policy in 2006 and no longer deploys practitioners without a license"
Too bad this soldier killed himself in 2005.
Report: Dad's complaints about GI's care unfounded
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
June 5 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The father of a soldier who committed suicide in Iraq says he was angry and discouraged that a military inspector general's investigation into the use of unlicensed psychologists in Iraq found the practice did not violate Army regulations.
The investigation was instigated by a complaint from Chris Scheuerman, of Sanford, N.C., father of Pfc. Jason Scheuerman, 20, who was found dead in his barracks in Iraq in 2005.
Three weeks before the soldier's death, an unlicensed psychologist asked by the soldier's captain to evaluate him, said in a report that Scheuerman was "capable of claiming mental illness" to manipulate superiors and sent him back to his unit.In a telephone interview on Thursday, Chris Scheuerman said military medical commanders "absolutely" should've known better than to send unlicensed psychologists to war.
"Any reasonable person would know that the worst place to train a psychologist would be in a combat environment," said Scheuerman, a former Army master sergeant who served in the Special Forces.
A copy of the Army Medical Command's inspector general's investigation, completed in November, was obtained by The Associated Press using a Freedom of Information Act request.
Prior to a change in policy in 2006, it was a common practice in Iraq for the military to deploy unlicensed providers with the stipulation that they work under supervision. The policy was similar to that in civilian settings, but was changed after the military determined supervision was difficult to do in a combat setting.Scheuerman's father said the then-unlicensed psychologist who treated his son should never have been in a position to do so, and is culpable in his son's death.
The father also complained that a top medical officer, Col. Elspeth Ritchie, who served as the psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general, knew of the provider's qualifications, and failed to take corrective action after his son's death.
Defense Department rules require a "doctoral level" health care provider to evaluate a soldier who is believed to be at risk for suicide.
The psychologist in Scheuerman's case, then-Army Capt. Chris Hansen, whose report also said Scheuerman should be taken seriously if he acted depressed again, received his doctoral degree in 2007 and his license in 2008, in Alabama.
It is not clear whether Hansen was supervised.
Chris Scheuerman is seeking to have Hansen's license revoked. The IG, however, determined the father's complaints were unfounded.
"The premise that someone at (Medical Command) made the decision to deploy providers regardless of their licensure is without merit," the investigation said.
Ritchie and Hansen, who is currently stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., were unavailable for comment, said Lt. Col. George Wright, an Army spokesman. He said in an e-mail that the Army has taken appropriate actions against individuals involved in the matter.
"We continue to be concerned about suicides, and are increasing our efforts to reduce this tragic occurrence," Wright said. "We grieve the loss of every soldier, no matter what the cause."
At least 211 soldiers have taken their lives while serving in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, while others have committed suicide after returning home. The Army had the highest rate of suicides on record last year.
Scheuerman's behavior raised enough alarms that when a call came over the unit's radios that there had been a death, one soldier told investigators he immediately knew who it was who had died.
A separate investigation into the soldier's death last year by the Army inspector general determined that "military-related issues" were a factor in his suicide. It also said personal issues may have contributed.
Source: Associated Press via Seattle Post Intelligencer
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Meanwhile, In America - And It Came To Pass They Prayed to God For Cheap Gasoline - Die Tageszeitung Germany Via Watching America
In a deep sotto voce:
"And it came to pass"
"And it came to pass"
Praying to GodFor Cheap Gasoline
By Karin Deckenbach
Translated By Ron Argentati
August 15, 2008
Source: Die Tageszeitung, Germany
As usual, the world’s most powerful nation exaggerates: First, gas was ultra-cheap at $1 a gallon. Now it’s super-expensive at $4.40 a gallon. When one considers that the average American drives 20,000 miles a year and their beloved monstrous SUVs only get about 7.4 MPG, it was obvious something had to be done.And it came to pass that Rocky Twyman, leader of a Washington church choir, stood in front of a filing station and prayed. "God is the only one we can turn to at this point," Twyman prayed at the pump. "Our leaders don't seem to be able to do anything about it. The prices keep soaring and soaring." Anyone who wished to follow his example-–and this was broadcast far and wide on American television--was advised to keep it simple: "God, deliver us from these high gas prices," Twyman said. "That's all they have to say." But Twyman quickly added a couple of secular tips: "People have to walk more, leave their cars at home, and carpool," he said.
Gone were the believers. Trying to get around without a car isn’t practical in a country where there aren’t even any sidewalks in the suburbs. In rural areas, there are only long-distance buses, and even in a big city like Los Angeles there’s no subway. The fact is, many commuters now avoid getting stuck in traffic jams by hitchhiking on those freeway lanes designated for two or more passengers per vehicle only.
Just a couple of months ago, congress set new fuel efficiency standards for the auto industry by mandating a fleet average of 35 MPG by the year 2020.
Meanwhile, a popular new sport has developed: “hypermiling.” Brake as little as possible, shift into neutral as often as possible, draft the vehicle ahead of you, turn off your built-in refrigerators and rooftop floodlights-–the internet is brimming with such tips to save fuel. All these things so people won’t have to sell their over-sized Ford Ranger Pick-ups (there’s no market for them now, anyway) and meanwhile, sales of hybrid models have tripled within a year.
Dealers react to the crisis with typical American marketing gimmicks: in Virginia, a supermarket promised free gasoline vouchers at their grand opening. Expectant customers had already created a tent city in front of the store the night before the event. In Nevada, a bordello enticed customers with promises of discount gasoline, although no customers would admit to taking advantage of the offer. The fast-food chain “Five Guys” offered to give customers 6 gallons of free gasoline for every 100 hamburgers they ate. If they haven’t exploded in the meantime, they’re probably still driving today.
But maybe Rocky Twyman’s prayers did manage to help. In June, Americans drove 12.2 billion miles less than the same period the previous year, a reduction of about 4.7 percent. Just like that, the USA was able to lower its crude oil consumption over the first six months of the year by 800,000 barrels a day as compared to 2007.
See? It worked.
Source, and link to original in German:
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Saturday, August 2, 2008
Designer Drugs For Rat-Racers -You've Heard Of 'Marathon Man? Marathon Mouse! Biotech @ It's Finest... Mouse Speed
Oral pill turns slacker mice into marathonists: study
WASHINGTON (AFP)- US researchers have come up with a pill that promises to give a typical junk-food snacking couch potato the silhouette of an athlete and the endurance of a marathon runner.The drug, which mimics the effects to the body of exercise, works on mice at least, according to scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California.
Created only for research and not available commercially, the drug works on a mouse's genetic switch called PPAR delta.
Scientists understood that in genetically-engineered mice, when the switch was permanently activated, it left the mice with a huge level of endurance, turning them into "indefatigable marathon runners."
"We wanted to know whether a drug specific for PPAR delta would have the same beneficial effects," said research team leader Ronald Evans of the Salk Institute's Gene Expression Laboratory.
The first tests failed, however: the oral drug appeared to activate the gene, but the mice did not do better as exercisers unless they were forced to exercise at high levels. Only then was their endurance heightened.
In Full
IMDB - Marathon Man
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Penis theft panic! - Reuters
"Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.
"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent.
To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it',"
Tags:
African Union,
Congo,
DRC,
Magic,
Penis Snatcher,
Penis Theft,
Psychology,
Rumors,
Vagina Dentata,
Voodoo
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