Nov 8 2012: I agree the problem is one of perception: I had the guts to ask why nutrition science and its translation is more influenced by society and the way we think in society than by the results of scientific experiments. When I dared to mentally zoom out and ask that question, I saw the mountain range of evidence, current and through history, that supports the notion of conspiracy. If you don't believe in it, I dare you look up the story of Ron Paul, a US congressional representative who was ignored, marginalized, bullied, and silenced (to a degree) by the system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9LN-CDRtCE&feature=related
You could also carefully and judiciously consider the documentation continuously presented by Alex Jones (not personality and presentation) using radio, the internet, and DVDs; many others work similarly.
More documented evidence on the detrimental effects of The Game (but by no means all of it) propagated by the system which could lead the USA through a police state into marshal law, using available characters:
Media's lip-service to bullying being bad
Executive orders (are they constitutional?)
Laws undermining the US Constitution and its amendments
Voting fraud
The generation of cash and its flow
The history of national banks
The public being handed businesses' debts
"Geoengineering"
Vaccines' detrimental effects (and pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued)
The public otherwise being experimental test subjects
The history of big tobacco
Government wastefulness
Tax evasion
Cover-ups
Secrecy promotes abuse
The history of colonialism
Institution-based societal structure and the institution-propagating mindset
Misleading, feel-good titles to governmental divisions (not unlike Hitler's Germany)
The historic westward expansion of the US and marginalization of the displaced native peoples
The economic aggression of the US
The political agenda (interests) of US and its officials (not necessarily peace)
The hatred much of the world has for America
Etc.
Nov 8 2012: Blackmail, its threat, resulting fear, and scapegoats are common types of control in institutions, where greedy, self-centered people tend to rise to the top and exploit the people beneath them. Social structure and the institutional mindset that imposes it keep people at the "bottom" working for minimum wage (or less); they keep people from being well-educated; they keep voices from being heard; they keep people from organizing and gaining collective power; they keep certain people groups from being prosecuted and being labeled criminal while others feel the force of the system; they keep human trafficking going, even in the United States, the supposed leader of the free world. In a just and balanced society, there wouldn't be a market for slaves, be they for sex, labor, or anything else (tissue?).
Nov 6 2012: There are a bunch of puppets walking around the world, who feel controlled by their collective circumstances. Social structure is more than just influence; it is a type of control. Ask the slaves found in virtually every country of the world.
Nov 5 2012: When you try to convince me to agree with you, you are trying to tell me what to think, yes? When marketers do their thing, they are trying to tell me what to think, yes? What you say influences me, but I am still responsible for what I think. Mind control and responsibility are NOT mutually exclusive; they must be balanced. (And I don't think this response is in the right column, sorry.)
Nov 5 2012: Quite the opposite. I am arguing that everyone is responsible. Everyone is told to join the System and socially punished if they do not comply. Everyone is responsible because everyone puts up with it.
Nov 5 2012: The core problem with America is "The System" (government, business, academia, finance) promoting what I call "The Game" (the mindset that promulgates people using people for gains). To restate it, the imposed societal structure squelches true democracy for its own advancement.
After months of research in present and historic societal structure and utilizing my nutrition training (MS) to apply science to life, I accepted that conspiracy to convert our republic into a fascist society has and is occurring. READ ON! The System is run by the bankers, and they have been working since the beginning of the United States of America to accomplish their aims, which include enslavement (through personal indebtedness, wars, and national indebtedness) and the drastic reduction in the world's population. Tactics include education, marketing, media coverage, official policies, marginalization of groups, etc.
A portion of the qualitative data: Bread and games to keep the masses complacent (cheap food, food stamps/EBT, entertainment, sports, recreational activities) while teaching them to be indebted to banks throughout life; Lobbying groups' dynamics in the legislative process; The law: are groups favored over individuals?; The unequal enforcement of the law; Political races; War, even its existence; Monopolies and their history; The layout of Washington DC; The monuments in Washington DC; The history of eugenics; The dynamics of funding for research; The history of mind control; Propaganda (in government, campaigns, recruitment, public education, "higher" education, business, NGOs, non-profits, media, advertising); The prevalence of conspiracy theories in American culture and the marginalization of their believers; The marginalization of so many other people groups: those with religious, spiritual, and/or New Age beliefs, psychic abilities, practitioners of alternative and traditional medicine, unaccredited schools and alternative media.
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A reply on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
You could also carefully and judiciously consider the documentation continuously presented by Alex Jones (not personality and presentation) using radio, the internet, and DVDs; many others work similarly.
More documented evidence on the detrimental effects of The Game (but by no means all of it) propagated by the system which could lead the USA through a police state into marshal law, using available characters:
Media's lip-service to bullying being bad
Executive orders (are they constitutional?)
Laws undermining the US Constitution and its amendments
Voting fraud
The generation of cash and its flow
The history of national banks
The public being handed businesses' debts
"Geoengineering"
Vaccines' detrimental effects (and pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued)
The public otherwise being experimental test subjects
The history of big tobacco
Government wastefulness
Tax evasion
Cover-ups
Secrecy promotes abuse
The history of colonialism
Institution-based societal structure and the institution-propagating mindset
Misleading, feel-good titles to governmental divisions (not unlike Hitler's Germany)
The historic westward expansion of the US and marginalization of the displaced native peoples
The economic aggression of the US
The political agenda (interests) of US and its officials (not necessarily peace)
The hatred much of the world has for America
Etc.
A reply on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
A reply on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
A reply on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
A reply on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
A comment on Conversation: Are we slaves to the forces that conspire to keep Republicans and Democrats in the United States in a 50/50 stand off?
After months of research in present and historic societal structure and utilizing my nutrition training (MS) to apply science to life, I accepted that conspiracy to convert our republic into a fascist society has and is occurring. READ ON! The System is run by the bankers, and they have been working since the beginning of the United States of America to accomplish their aims, which include enslavement (through personal indebtedness, wars, and national indebtedness) and the drastic reduction in the world's population. Tactics include education, marketing, media coverage, official policies, marginalization of groups, etc.
A portion of the qualitative data: Bread and games to keep the masses complacent (cheap food, food stamps/EBT, entertainment, sports, recreational activities) while teaching them to be indebted to banks throughout life; Lobbying groups' dynamics in the legislative process; The law: are groups favored over individuals?; The unequal enforcement of the law; Political races; War, even its existence; Monopolies and their history; The layout of Washington DC; The monuments in Washington DC; The history of eugenics; The dynamics of funding for research; The history of mind control; Propaganda (in government, campaigns, recruitment, public education, "higher" education, business, NGOs, non-profits, media, advertising); The prevalence of conspiracy theories in American culture and the marginalization of their believers; The marginalization of so many other people groups: those with religious, spiritual, and/or New Age beliefs, psychic abilities, practitioners of alternative and traditional medicine, unaccredited schools and alternative media.
More is in my twitter feed, FB notes.