Freedom Vaults : Guidelines for Saying No to Police Searches. One of the main powers that law enforcement officers carry is the power to intimidate citizens into voluntarily giving up their rights. Police are trained to believe in their authority and trained to perform their interactions with private citizens with confidence. It is their job to deal with problems and they learn to manage uncomfortable situations through strength. Most people, when confronted by police get a mild panic reaction, become anxious, and try to do whatever they can to minimize the time spent with the officer. Because of the imbalance of power between citizen and officer, when a law enforcement officer makes a strongly worded request, most people consent without realizing that they are giving up constitutional protections against improper meddling by the State in the private affairs of citizens.
A common situation is that of the traffic stop. Unfortunately police will often try to push citizens to accept a search, to the point of ignoring when you say "no". The Terry v. American's Crazed Corn Habit - Justin Rohrlich. According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, the increased use of ethanol is responsible for a rise in food prices of approximately 10 to 15 percent. Why? We're turning corn into fuel — a highly inefficient one, at that — instead of food.
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy points out that "mixing food and fuel markets for political reasons has done American consumers no discernable good, while producing measurable harm. " However, perhaps summing up the issue most succinctly is Mark J. Anytime you have Paul Krugman agreeing on ethanol with such a diverse group as the Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, the Cato Institute, Investor's Business Daily, Rolling Stone Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, John Stossel, The Ecological Society of America, the American Enterprise and Brookings Institutions, the Heritage Foundation, George Will and Time magazine, you know that ethanol has to be one of the most misguided public policies in US history.
Nope. Why Do We Smoke Cigarettes? FromThe Psychology of Everyday Living by Ernest Dichter None of the much flaunted appeals of cigarette advertisers, such as superior taste and mildness, induces us to become smokers or to choose one brand in preference to another. Despite the emphasis put on such qualities by advertisers, they are minor considerations. This is one of the first facts we discovered when we asked several hundred people, from all walks of life, why they liked to smoke cigarettes. Smoking is as much a psychological pleasure as it is a physiological satisfaction. Smoking is Fun What is the nature of this psychological pleasure? Smoking is a Reward Most of us are hungry for rewards. The first and last cigarette in the day are especially significant rewards. Smoking is often merely a conditioned reflex. While to many people smoking is fun, and a reward in itself, it more often accompanies other pleasures. Smoking is Oral Pleasure The Cigarette -- A Modern Hourglass "With a Cigarette I Am Not Alone" "Got a Match?
" How to Get a Copy of Your FBI. The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful thing. If you've ever wanted to know just what those guvmint bastards have on you, anyway, here's your chance. Just fill in the italics in this form letter with the appropriate information, get your signature notarized, send it off, and you're in business! This should be free, though if your search returns reams of information, you may be charged 5 cents per page in duplication fees. The law says that your request must be responded to within 10 days, but you can expect something closer to 2 or 3 months for a definitive answer with the current backlog of paperwork. Your Name Today's Date Your Address Line 2 of Your Address Federal Bureau of Investigation Records Resources Division - Attn.: FOIA/PA Office J.
This is a request for records under both the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act. My full name is: Your Name. I hereby agree to pay reasonable costs associated with this request up to a maximum of $30. Sincerely,Your Signature. Procrastination. The Misconception: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well. The Truth: Procrastination is fueled by weakness in the face of impulse and a failure to think about thinking. Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.
If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day. This is a bigger deal than you think. Take a look at your queue. Psychologists actually know the answer to this question, to why you keep adding movies you will never watch to your growing collection of future rentals, and it is the same reason you believe you will eventually do what’s best for yourself in all the other parts of your life, but rarely do.
A study conducted in 1999 by Read, Loewenstein and Kalyanaraman had people pick three movies out of a selection of 24. Sources: 23 Tools To Brainwash and Influence People Through Media | Alterati. ‘’till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! “ - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World The opinions and behaviors of people and societies are easily swayed.
Now the power to rule the world and wag the cultural dog is at your fingertips. The 23 Tools: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. By sticking to these simple premises you should be able to produce entire societies capable of ending world hunger, but too selfish to care. Devon White specializes in PR for the brain, promoting integrity, responsibility and conscious evolution through online video and lecture-performances on sex. Like this: Like Loading... 7 Lessons From 7 Great Minds. Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history?
Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left behind. Even though these great teachers have passed on, their words still live, and in them their wisdom. I’ve made a list of seven what I believe are some of the greatest teachings by the world’s greatest minds. 1. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” - Lawrence J. In order for us to achieve our dreams, we must have a vision of our goals.
Action: Visualize a life of your wildest dreams. 2. “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to learn something is to dive right in to it. Action: You must define your fears in order to conquer them. 3. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. 6 Insane True Stories Too Awesome for a Chuck Norris Movie. Here's a quick quiz: What do you do when you are a 73-year-old woman who lives alone and you hear a window breaking at 1am on a Saturday night? Answer: Don't open the front door because your robber will stuff a rag in your mouth and proceed with thieving you. Which, unfortunately, was exactly what happened to an elderly woman a few years ago when she let her robber, Juan Garcia Vasquez, right in the door so he could conduct his robbery of her.
What Happened Next: The old woman somehow convinced the man to, instead of going straight for the jewels and cash, sit down with her on the sofa instead. Home-baked cookies may or may not have been promised. So, they're sitting there on the couch, maybe chit-chatting, or maybe just staring at each other awkwardly, when suddenly Vasquez's stomach growled. The daughter phoned the cops and Vasquez was picked up at around 2:45am. Yang Youde: Chinese Rambo This is Yang's angry face. He wasn't just being paranoid. "Duly noted. " Hooray! Fair enough. 6 Brutal Leaders And Their Ridiculous Secret Hobbies. Al Capone Wrote Sappy Love Songs Say what you will about Al Capone, but he was inarguably a hardass.
He was the world's most famous criminal in an era that, according to what little we gleaned from Kevin Costner movies, was basically nothing but non-stop drive-by Tommy gun shootings. He's still the default mental image you have when somebody says "gangster": generically Italian looking guy, big pin-stripe suit, fedora--that's him.
Somehow this picture is more terrifying than any shot in Scarface. He was the very essence of badass bad guy... well, except for the sappy love songs. His one documented song (though it's said he wrote many more) was titled "Madonna Mia," and it was essentially a heart-wrenching ode to his beloved wife. In a cell that was much nicer than the average dorm room. Joseph Stalin Drew Naked Men "Hey, comrade fatso! Just a little bit. "A little mass-murder, a little nude sketching, a little mass murder, a little nude sketching... " Kim Jong Il and Basketball For the ball. The Battle for Your Mind: Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public By Dick Sutphen. Authoritarian followers Mind Control Subliminals By Dick Sutphen Summary of Contents The Birth of Conversion The Three Brain Phases How Revivalist Preachers Work Voice Roll Technique Six Conversion Techniques 1. keeping agreements 2.physical and mental fatigue 3. increase the tension 4.
Uncertainty. 5. Jargon 6. No humor Stockholm SyndromeDecognition Process Step One is ALERTNESS REDUCTION Step Two is PROGRAMED CONFUSION Step Three is THOUGHT STOPPINGTrue Believers & Mass Movements Persuasion Techniques YES SET TRUISMS SUGGESTION Imbedded Commands INTERSPERSAL TECHNIQUE Visualisation SHOCK AND CONFUSIONSubliminal Programming Mass Misuse Vibrato Extra Low Frequencies The Neurophone Summary of Contents The Birth of Conversion/Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.
I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Birth of Conversion Charles J. Alright. How TED Connects the Idea-Hungry Elite. 7 Real World Heists That Put 'Ocean's 11' to Shame. Thomas Blood Steals (and Ruins) the Crown Jewels of England The Scene After building an impressive name for himself as an Irish assassin-for-hire, Thomas Blood found himself eating a shit sandwich after a botched job.
This momentary lull in his career lasted about five seconds, since he quickly left for England to steal the Crown Jewels, which are about as easy to steal as a solid-gold Death Star. A simple smash and grab job? The Plan: To pull off this insane heist of a national treasure, Blood hatched a brilliant scheme to be personally invited into the fortress with escort through an elaborate show of costumes, pageantry and some Congress-level lying. He toured the Tower with his "wife" (probably an inexpensive prostitute), and after a refreshing drink and a masterfully faked conversation, Blood returned some days later to offer his non-existent nephew to the Edwards's unmarried daughter. Yup, these babies. Just try putting that mini-nuke anywhere close to your balls. Change Generation: Josh Williams, Co-founder and CEO, Gowalla.
Josh Williams liked to travel, and explore, and he wanted others to embrace that same spirit--and what it means--in a social and sharable way. So in 2007 he started Gowalla, a location-based social network, which has grown fast, and now has over 600,000 active users and a team of 25 employees based in the new tech hub that is Austin, Texas. Josh talked with Fast Company about technology as a tool for change, how Gowalla got started, and told us just what the life of a 30-year-old tech CEO with a wife and two kids is like ...
What's your big idea? Inspire people to keep up with their friends, share the places they go and discover the extraordinary in the world around them. Put simply, let's get people to go out and explore.What was the inspiration behind your idea? Passports. What problem or issue did you first try to answer? Initially we didn't have any database of places. What was your initial goal in addressing that problem? How did your goals change over time? Where did you grow up? How Blue State Digital Co-Founder Plans to Hack D.C. Clay Johnson is used to upending the way Washington works. He was the lead programmer for Howard Dean in 2004, a breakthrough campaign when it came to using the Internet. He co-founded Blue State Digital, a consultancy that put online tools in the hands of hundreds of other campaigns in 2008 (and earned a title as one of Fast Company’s “Fast 50”), as well a role in this month's iCitizen article..
Now Johnson is launching an incubator to help other startups “disrupt the business of Washington.” Big Window Labs will provide office space, legal services, and mentoring to startups in the fields of media, politics, and government. What companies could come out of Big Window Labs? Every election cycle, a slew of such new companies emerge, having figured out new and better ways to attack certain pieces of the campaign puzzle.
“D.C. is not a supportive area for entrepreneurs,” Johnson says. For the most part, Johnson won’t be investing money in the companies in this incubator. A 21st Century School on the Cutting Edge of Learning [Slideshow] | Co.Design. We are instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many keys that are struck by the nature that surrounds us and that often strike themselves. -- Denis Diderot If form followed function in today's schools, then there would be no need to change the current learning environment. The current model that pervades today's school design is based on an outdated 19th-century model -- what academics call age-specific grouping, contain and control, didactic instruction, prescribed knowledge, uniformed progression, fixed schedules, and standardized assessment through memorization.
In walking into many of today's schools, you are instantly transported to the familiar experience of the double-loaded corridor, self-contained boxes with minimal daylight, and giant, impersonal lecture halls. Artists and architects Bosch & Fjord rejected this Victorian thinking in their design of Ordrup School. Infographic Video: Anatomy of a Dying Suburb | Co.Design. Influence Project. Three Techniques for Quieting Your Mind. Three Techniques for Quieting Your Mind Courtesy of Andrea A mere week ago, I was telling a client that I thought it was impossible to completely stop ourselves from thinking. I subsequently received some guidance that actually had me prove myself completely wrong! In the past week, my mind has quieted down remarkably during meditation, to the point of true quiet and emptiness. Naturally, I then get really excited about my states of emptiness, leading to attachment … and new thoughts! Nevertheless, I have never before experienced true cessation of thought for prolonged periods of time.
Here are three of my newly discovered techniques for creating a quiet, peaceful, empty mind: 1. This technique came up in one of my coaching sessions. Our breathing cycle and the flow of our thoughts are closely linked. As we focus on those tiny pauses between our in- and out-breaths, we find that our mind quiets down at those points in our breathing. 2. 3. Blessings, Andrea. Placebo Buttons. The Socratic Method. What is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone. Evolution.
The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. How to Detect Lies - body language, reactions, speech patterns. This was news to me. Image Gallery: Who's Who In U.S. Intelligence -- InformationWeek. What is a Meme? - un knol de Brent Silby. Tao te ching @ mattpaul.org. Fascism. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Airport security does not make you safer.