I have seen this face before somewhere … Royalty never went away, but with the onset of republican government, they did go underground. This is an old, old painting in the hotel lobby, and when I remember who it is, I will pass it along. No doubt she is related to The Queen of England, as they are all related by intermarriage. She’s little on the homely side too, in my humble opinion. That nose takes up most of her face, but who am I to talk.

(Afterthought – it appears the painting has been partially restored. Maybe when they got this far, uncovering the face, they said “Yikes!” And decided not to finish.)

— in Osøyri, Hordaland, Norway. Last stop before home.

This piece was written by “straightfromthedevilsmouth,” or the man I call “Straight,” or at one time “MR.” We have endured some disinfo attacks at another blog, a sign that we are coming closer to truth. As Dr. Judy Wood says, the closer you are to your target, the more flack you draw. He addresses the psychological aspects of the criticism, which I had not considered. I merely thought the guy “Willard” was a dumb shit, and gave him a short (but polite, I thought) answer.

Anyway, below it Straight’s analysis if “Willard,” most likely a paid disinfo agent. When they come directly to this blog I delete their comments, which appears to be the reason they are ganging up at Fakeologist.

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Inspired by some disinfo artists I’ve come across in the Fakeologist comment section, I’ve decided to put some work in on exposing their tactics that are based on social psychology.

Anybody who has taken a Social Psychology course in the last 25 years has heard of Robert Cialdini. His work on persuasion and influence is about as respected as it gets in that field, and no doubt in use by Intelligence agents around the world. In particular, I would like to focus on his work with “Trigger Mechanisms” in animals.
Here’s a couple excerpts (note: I know that I, personally, very often skip the quotes section of posts and only read the poster’s words, in this case please read the quotes as they are very important to what I am trying to get across).

“Turkey mothers are good mothers— loving, watchful, and protective. They spend much of their time tending, warming, cleaning, and huddling the young beneath them. But there is something odd about their method. Virtually all of this mothering is triggered by one thing: the “cheep-cheep” sound of young turkey chicks. Other identifying features of the chicks, such as their smell, touch, or appearance, seem to play minor roles in the mothering process. If a chick makes the “cheep-cheep” noise, its mother will care for it; if not, the mother will ignore or sometimes kill it. The extreme reliance of maternal turkeys upon this one sound was dramatically illustrated by animal behaviorist M. W. Fox in his description of an experiment involving a mother turkey and a stuffed polecat. 1 For a mother turkey, a polecat is a natural enemy whose approach is to be greeted with squawking, pecking, clawing rage. Indeed, the experimenters found that even a stuffed model of a polecat, when drawn by a string toward a mother turkey, received an immediate and furious attack. When, however, the same stuffed replica carried inside it a small recorder that played the “cheep-cheep” sound of baby turkeys, the mother not only accepted the oncoming polecat but gathered it underneath her. When the machine was turned off, the polecat model again drew a vicious attack.” (Cialdini PhD, Robert B.. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) (p. 2). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.)

But certainly not all animals are this dumb, are they?

“How ridiculous a female turkey seems under these circumstances: She will embrace a natural enemy just because it goes “cheep-cheep,” and she will mistreat or murder one of her own chicks just because it does not. She looks like an automaton whose maternal instincts are under the automatic control of that single sound. The ethologists tell us that this sort of thing is far from unique to the turkey. They have begun to identify regular, blindly mechanical patterns of action in a wide variety of species. Called fixed-action patterns, they can involve intricate sequences of behavior, such as entire courtship or mating rituals.”

OK, but definitely not humans, right?

“This parallel form of human automatic action is aptly demonstrated in an experiment by Harvard social psychologist Ellen Langer. A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do. Langer demonstrated this unsurprising fact by asking a small favor of people waiting in line to use a library copying machine: Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I’m in a rush? The effectiveness of this request-plus-reason was nearly total: Ninety-four percent of those asked let her skip ahead of them in line. Compare this success rate to the results when she made the request only: Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine? Under those circumstances, only 60 percent of those asked complied.”

OK, interesting. But what’s my point in bringing this up to you?

“But a third type of request tried by Langer showed that this was not the case. It seems that it was not the whole series of words, but the first one, “because,” that made the difference. Instead of including a real reason for compliance, Langer’s third type of request used the word “because” and then, adding nothing new, merely restated the obvious: Excuse me, I have five pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make some copies? The result was that once again nearly all (93 percent) agreed, even though no real reason, no new information, was added to justify their compliance. Just as the “cheep-cheep” sound of turkey chicks triggered an automatic mothering response from maternal turkeys— even when it emanated from a stuffed polecat— so, too, did the word “because” trigger an automatic compliance response from Langer’s subjects, even when they were given no subsequent reason to comply. Click, whirr!“

Aha! There’s the trick. Just like turkeys, humans are such automatic creatures that all we need is to hear the word “because” in order for us to do someone a favor. We don’t even care about the reason, or even if there is a reason, we just need to hear the word “because”.

I would like to show you how a disinfo poster that goes by the name of Willard uses these tactics to give the appearance of a solid rebuttal, when in reality offering nothing whatsoever. Here was a part of his post when being told to provide evidence against face splitting technology.

“Mark, you wanted evidence from me. Here goes:

You posted this list below of replaced people.

You preface this list below of replaced people with this sentence:

“So far we have given you, sometimes with help from outsiders, and always with whiners and bitchers crying it just ain’t so,…”

A grown man talking about bitchers and whiners. This sentence is written by a man involved in an intellectual pursuit?

Here is your list:

• ‘Bill Hicks became Alex Jones. He’s a conspiracy guy. Controversy swilled about us, but Straight nailed it with a dental analysis.
• Jimi Hendrix became Cornell West. He undermines philosophy. It is his job now.
• Rocker Duane Allman became heavy metal artist Lemmy Kilmister.
• Phil Hartman became Glenn Beck. Acting training taught him to cry on screen.
• Gary Hinman, whose talents were uncertain anyway, became Maury Povich, but I repeat myself.
• Pamela Courson became Barbara Walters, a later-life body switch.
• Brandon DeWilde became Thom Hartmann, who in reality loathes liberals and progressives.
• Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, the fake Columbine shooters, using fake names (as fake people do), became Matt Stone and Trey Parker, also fake names for the fake creators of South Park. Fake fake fake fake fake!
• Bobby Fuller became Bill O’Reilly, a fake singer turned fake pundit.
• David Box became Charlie Rose, so that the ‘thoughtful’ PBS set is kept in the dark too.
• Bruce Lee became Judge Lance Ito, totaling nailing the part.
• The Janis Joplin twins became the Amy Goodman twins.

Mark, you even have the temerity to bring the Paul McCartney/ Mike McCartney! twin noise!”

Here the link … Etc.

You provide photo comparisons elsewhere on your blog as evidence.”

(http://fakeologist.com/blog/2016/09/01/audiochat-unreal-on-black-frosting/#comments)

If you read closely, you’ll see that all Willard did was quote Mark, and provide a few links to where he found the quotes. 90% of what he wrote was “you said this…” The other two points were ad hominems (“a grown man….”) (“you have the temerity…”).
So why did Willard bother to do that?

Well I suspect Willard is taught to use the principles of “Trigger Mechanisms” as explained by Cialdini above. Most lurkers don’t read closely, they just skim, and when they do read closely they are not thinking too deeply.

Similar to the subjects who did people a favor for the sole reason of hearing the word “because”, third-party readers may accept Willard’s answer and expertise for the sole reason of seeing him quote Mark and providing a rebuttal, regardless of how empty it was. By quoting Mark and providing links, it taps a trigger mechanism in a reader’s brain that says “this person did his research, thus I should respect his opinion”.
Here’s some more from Willard:

“Here is one you gave. You assert Pete Ham became Bill Maher. IMHO, the two images do not match. Neither does Bruce Li and Jusge Ito or Jimi Hendrix and Cornel West, etc. ad nauseum. How do I know they do not match because I can see they do not match.”

“They do not match because I can see they do not match”. Appeal to self-authority with no evidence cited. Why would a 3rd party reader react to Willard’s self-authority? In reaction to the trigger mechanism he flipped earlier in the post, which gives the impression he is a man who does his research.

Here is how Willard ends the post and I am including the image because I think it is very important to recognize what I’m about to tell you as a common disinfo trigger mechanism:

“What does match is how your provocative assertions about people being replaced, supported with dubious photo evidence is similar to Dallas Goldbug. You are a poor man’s Dallas Goldbug because, like McGowan, and Tom dalpra and Blue Moon, you have no class. You can not disagree without being disagreeable. You can not answer a critic without resorting to profanity and name calling.

I do not think Dallas Goldbug stoops that low.

Mark, go back and look at the question I asked Brandon about the woman from the Apple Records/ Paul McCartney camp. McGowan was in contact with the McCartney Machine before Weird Scenes Facebook went online. Either wittingly or unwittingly, McGowan ran interference for Apple, huge cash cow, with the Paul Is Dead/Paul is Alive disinfo.
And I have already mentioned that MM’s Paul McCarthey/Mike McGear material was filched from a private forum.

That is how I troll, homes.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com…

Willard continues his attack by moving away from providing any form of evidence, and instead attacks Mark by comparing him to DallasGoldBug (an agent whose sole purpose was to discredit the idea of replacements), and then changing the topic to Dave McGowan. Again, avoiding providing evidence.

He finishes it off with a “perceived victory” quote “This is how I troll, homes” to tap another trigger mechanism stating that “I am the victor in this argument”. He adds another link for extra measure that is meant to “teach us” something he assumes we do not know, pushing the “I am more knowledgeable” trigger.

And finally, and this is very important, he adds an image from Mark’s site. Why does he do this? It is the final trigger mechanism that you are seeing all over the comments section of Fakeologist, Quora, or any comments section where disinfo gathers. The purpose is simple, the appearance of some form of media whether it is a Youtube video, image, or sound clip, has the appearance of being a “higher” form of evidence. By pasting a photo from POM, Willard gives the impression he did his research, is familiar with the site, and has debunked it to the point that he can ridicule it. However, when you read his post closely you’ll see that he has purposely avoided using any sort of actual evidence to counter Mark’s post.

You can see some more examples of disinfo agents Tom Dalpra and Stephen using the same tactic here. You’ll notice that nearly every post of theirs has some form of media or quotes with links:
http://fakeologist.com/blog/2016/08/13/bill-hicks-is-still-alex-jones-piece-of-mind/

 

These are just a few photos from Stockholm and Oslo. Today we travel by train to Bergen, and from there back to Denver on 9/11.

I have a ton of catching up to do once home, not to mention jet lag (which is easier to overcome traveling west than east). And then we have built up a large catalogue of Zombies and twins, so that work will continue.

[The Def Leppard photo above has within it our latest Zombie, someone well known to all of us. Straight found him. I am just teasing here, and will do a big reveal down the road, but look them over, see if you recognize one of them.]

Straight has refined the technique from random scattershot hope-for-the-best, as I was doing, to this:

• Start with the assumption that everyone who has a platform in American news and television is a reassignment after fake death. So far, it has worked.
• Find the date they entered the busines
• Working backward 5-7 years, find a musician or actor whose died young.
• You have thus narrowed the field, and the person you seek, if there, will be contained in that much smaller group. Then do facial analysis.

It has worked! This is how he found Bill Maher, for instance, and the Def Leppard guy above.

Regarding my photographs, I use a Nikon CoolPix that a friend suggested to me. It has a 42mm zoom. I usually put it on infinite focus so as to have the entire field defined. I don’t have any illusions that my photos are special. Anyone can do this, most better than me. My friend who suggested the Nikon works hard on staging and framing photos, and has exceptional shots all about his home. I collect memories, like we all do. That is all. My usual preferences is photos of people, but without their knowledge. Now that I wrote that, I realize it sounds weird.

Paul Simon will be in Oslo in October. Would love to see him, but it would require making a new plan, Stan. Maybe he’ll come to Denver.

Our future travel plans are modest, and I am in favor of going to one place and staying there, maybe an Airbnb for a month. I would love to spend time in New England, never having been there, and one person we know with travel experience says a small town away from ski resorts in France would be very affordable. That sounds heavenly.

Anyway, off to Bergen! There was a lively discussion in the post below, and it thrilled me to read the polite exchange, full of potential for new avenues of thought.

We left Paris yesterday and arrived mid-morning in Amsterdam, a welcome change! Below are some odd shots of both places, nothing organized.

Amsterdam is cooler. It is crawling with bicycles. It is not unusual to find English-speaking people. We rode the canals yesterday for a couple of hours, and today are visiting the Rambo Museum and a large park nearby.

Apparently John and Yoko were in Amsterdam when they did the whole fake bed thing for peace, a publicity stunt designed to engage John in the mind of peace activists as one of them, even a leader. That way when he faked his death it had the effect of killing hope. That was a big thrust back then, with JFK/RFK/MLK each assigned a role as a fake leftist/peacenik. Their fake deaths killed hope.

Haven’t looked into MLK yet. Just suspicious. Again, no one would be allowed such a high profile in our total information control environment unless he were controlled opposition.

 

We are in Champex, Switzterland. We have been hiking two days, covered around 20 miles, climbed and descended maybe 6,300 feet. The climbing, while hard, is something we can stay on top of, merely resting and recharging muscles. Descent is a little more challenging, as the pain is often unrelenting. Young people do much better at it.

The photo above with a dam in the background – I remember in economics class back in the 1970s they talked about how the French would build dams, pump water up to them at night when rates were low, and run the water down during the day when rates were high. This is one of those kinds of dams. They are building another one, a sister dam, out of sight and using underground tunnels. These are the Swiss, and not the French, I just remembered.

The ground markers, atop a hill and the end of our climb yesterday, mark the boundary of the Sardinain Empire from the 1700s, so I am told.

The village in the valley was hit by a an avalanche in 1997, 20 people killed. So we are told. We walked by many mountainside fortifications to prevent a recurrence.

We leave tomorrow morning for the Haute Route hike. We took a tram cable car (Telepherique de L’Aiguille du Midi (phew!)) up the mountain today to get a look at the very high Alps surrounding amount Mt. Blanc, at over 15,000 feet. It is a remarkable engineering feat! As I understand it, this technology was developed and perfected in the late 1800s. The views are just stunning! Cable cars run every ten minutes all day long, each one holding 30 or more people. Trams and elevators took us up to about 13,000 feet and no kidding, way way up high like that, we exited through the gift shop before coming down off the mountain.

That is a tried and true marketing strategy. (We bought nothing … it was already a spendy day to get up there.)

My wife woke me at 6AM asking if I wanted to attend a piano concert by the river. She must have known the answer as she and daughter were on their way out the door. And, it turned out to be a SITAR concert, so staying in bed was the correct choice. Got up to make coffee, exploded the espresso maker (apparently you have to hold the handle in place), spent the next half hour cleaning up the damage. One broken glass was the only casualty. Will spend the rest of today in coffee-splotched shorts as we travel to Chamonix, France, where the forced march begins on Monday.

Sitar … Some British group, 1967, some band member trying to distinguish himself, long piece taking up the third of the back of an album, me trying to lift the needle and get it on the next song without damaging the vinyl. Ah yes, fond sitar memories.

Anyay, she grabbed this shot with her IPhone, Lake Geneva, slight ripple effect caused by strained rasping sound of sitar strings.

We are leaving today on a trip for Europe, and has been my custom in the past, when I have time I will write and publish photos of our adventures. We are two extremely fortunate people, my wife and I, and so these past years since 2007 have been to …

• Spain (Barcelona, my carried memory the Salvador Dali museum in Figueras);
• Europe (Rome, Florence, Venice, and then hiking the Swiss Alps, then sight seeing Switzerland, Hungary, Czech Republic);
• Nepal, where we hiked a portion of the Annapurna Circuit (it was on this trip that I gathered strong evidence that the earth is indeed round, as we circumnavigated it), and Thailand, including an island in the Gulf of Thailand where the water is bathtub warm;
• Peru, where we hiked the Inca Trail and visited Machu Picchu;
• Ecuador and the Galapagos, where I marveled at the intricate survival skills and wacky humor of land tortoises – such cut-ups!;
• New Zealand, in part where we endured five inches of rain over two days on the Milford Trek, completely worth it;
• Europe again, where we hiked to the base of the Matterhorn and then a trek through the Dolomites, then driving to Slovenia and through northern Italy to our favorite hangout (and everyone’s), Florence; and finally,
• Costa Rica, beautiful country and lovely people and with great friends, but where I discovered I can live without bus tours.

This trip we will start out in Geneva, where our daughter currently lives, and from there to Switzerland/France and a portion of the Haute Route, hiking fifty miles or so over five days, with 14,000 feet of elevation gain, 16,000 of descent. There is a debate about which is harder – hiking uphill, or down. The answer is “yes.”

After the hike we are off to Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and then fly home from Bergen, Norway directly to Denver. We return on 9/11.

My wife has done all of the details on this trip (and all the others), everything a travel agent would do from airline and train tickets to advance museum passes to avoid long lines, as at the Louvre. She has gotten very skilled at trip planning.

Money? Of course, always an issue. Our question is where we want it to be when we go – scattered about the world, or sitting in a bank. You can guess the answer. Travel is not only fun, it is gives us a broader, deeper perspective. The United States is just a place to hail from. People everywhere know about our country, but they manage to live their lives 24/7 without thinking of us, unless we are bombing them. As one AAA gal told us before our first trip to Europe, “just lay low. Don’t be Americans.”

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While away, please play! Use the comment sections here to explore the topics we have discussed in the past months, including putting up your own photography and research. This is more and more a communal effort. I’ll be able to check in and delete any spook attacks, but otherwise will be busy with walking, riding trains and buses, drinking fine wines (my preference: white and cheap), photography and sleeping.

My colleague MH does his research, as I see it, in spurts, and by the time I get back will have a tote bag of new projects. I can’t wait!

I am in Taos, New Mexico this week. I have meetings that start at 10 AM, and since I get up at five, I have time on my hands. Today I did some sightseeing while listening to the local NPR, the only non-music channel on the dial.

NPR was doing one of its ‘thoughtful’ pieces about voter registration and voter ID requirements. It was a long piece, and went into detail on laws in Texas and other places to require ID’s and all of that, and how poor people are disadvantaged, and all of that.

It is the definition of misdirection! NPR, so full of shit, is so good at this. The correct question is “Are our votes even counted?” They never asked the right question, as their job is to mislead and misdirect.

The answer, in case you wonder, is: Nope…