New research behavior tool that predicts 'feeling trends' concerning economy reveals developing wave of potentially violent anti-Semitism in US, Germany
Ynetnews
25 Jul, 2006 / Israel Money
A new behavior-research tool, Affective Encryption Analysis, has uncovered a dramatic trend in both the US and Germany—a developing wave of potentially violent anti-Semitism.
Affective Encryption Analysis, which was recently used to predict the outcome of the 2008 US Presidential election, uses naturalistic research methods to measure the way in which “feeling-trends” develop over time. It then forecasts the likely behavioral outcomes.
Using Affective Encryption Analysis, media psychologist, Dr. James N. Herndon, of Media Psychology Affiliates, led an investigation to predict long-term “feeling-trends” concerning the economy.
Population samples in both the US and Germany were chosen as indicators of both US and European feelings toward economic conditions.
“Our results showed far greater feelings of dread about the economic future than we currently find in mainstream survey research,” stated Dr. Herndon. “In fact, almost 70 percent of our sample expressed a precipitously declining sense of economic stability. This was especially strong among the lower-middle-class,” he added.
'Scapegoating Israel'
“What we did not expect was a widespread association of economic problems with support for Israel. This belief appears to be growing exponentially in both the US and in Germany,” he said.
“We currently have worryingly low rates of savings and capital investment, combined with systemic unemployment and an ever-increasing spiral of debt and inflation,” said Dr. Herndon.
“If current trends are left unchecked, we believe that by late 2007, a feeling of economic desperation will begin to overtake large sectors of the lower-middle-class in the US, as well as the welfare-dependent classes in Germany,” he warned.
“Our results strongly suggest that this will provide the emotional trigger for the scapegoating of Jews, toward whom feelings in our sample were unexpectedly negative, and often violent.”
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Study: Economic concerns to trigger anti-Semitism in US, Germany
Campaigners monitored by civil servants
• Intelligence on climate groups passed to police
• 'Orwellian' approach condemned by Liberty
Matthew Taylor
guardian.co.uk
1 May, 2009
Government officials have been monitoring environmental campaign groups and then passing intelligence on to the police, according to documents seen by the Guardian.
An internal risk report from the Department for Transport reveals that a unit referred to as the comms directorate "continuously monitor[ed]" peaceful protest groups opposed to the expansion of Heathrow airport and then briefed detectives about their findings.
The disclosure is the latest evidence of a wide-ranging crackdown on environmental campaign groups and has been condemned by MPs and civil liberty groups.
Earlier this month it emerged that government officials had handed confidential police intelligence about environmental activists to the energy giant E.ON ahead of a peaceful demonstration at Kingsnorth, the proposed site of a new coal-fired power station in north Kent.
Last week the Guardian revealed how undercover police were running a network of hundreds of informants inside protest organisations who secretly feed them intelligence in return for cash.
The latest documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal how the comms directorate at the DfT was monitoring campaign groups in the consultation period leading up to the announcement about the planned expansion of Heathrow airport.
A typical entry in February 2008 states: "Strength of opposition to expansion at Heathrow leads to direct action during the consultation period." Under measures in place it states: "Comms directorate to continually monitor protest groups and brief staff/police accordingly."
Another entry in May 2008 states: "Strength of opposition to expansion at Heathrow leads to direct action before and around time of ministerial considerations thereby delaying final policy decisions."
The document rates the "inherent risk" as medium or high and states: "Comms directorate to continuously monitor protest groups and brief staff/police accordingly."
The Liberal Democrat justice spokesman, David Howarth, said it was "extraordinary" that civil servants were monitoring peaceful environmental campaigners and then passing information to police.
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'They weren't told they were being fed Quaker Oats laced with radioactive substances'
Shattered Illusions: Ten Things about the Natural World You Thought You Knew (But Didn't)
By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
4 May, 2009
(NaturalNews) People tend to think that the things they believe are true. And even when they're terrible wrong, they still believe their fictions as if they were facts.
It's a healthy exercise to have your false beliefs challenged by reality, so today I'm doing my best to shatter ten false beliefs most people hold about the natural world -- food, animals, nature and so on.
Read the list below and see how many you used to believe.
#1) Quaker Oats was started by Quakers
Ummm, not really. In fact, the company has nothing to do with Quakers. It was started in Pennsylvania in 1901 when there were lots of Quakers around, mostly due to the fact that Quakers were known as being honest.
But Quaker Oats isn't exactly honest. Today, it's actually owned by PepsiCo, and in the 1950s, Quaker Oats, Harvard University and MIT researchers conducted experiments on human children using radioactive elements to trace the flow of nutrients through their bodies. The children were invited to be part of a "special science club," but they weren't told they were being fed Quaker Oats laced with radioactive substances. Side effects of radioactive exposure include skin cell mutations and skin cancer.
When parents found out about the experiments, they sued, and Quaker Oats was eventually forced to pay out $1.85 million, but the case wasn't settled until decades later -- 1997, actually. It's all detailed in the book The State Boy's Rebellion by Michael D'Antonio. (http://www.amazon.com/State-Boys-Re...)
Sources:
MIT news: http://tech.mit.edu/V117/N65/bferna...
(Note how arrogant this MIT news story is, implying it was okay to experiment on the children because the levels of radioactivity were so low.)
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker...
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Smash EDO continue anti-death merchant action
McDonald's and banks among those implicated by anti-war group
27 Apr, 2009
By Naomi Loomes [The Argus]
Protesters have drawn up a list of banks and companies they will target during an anti-arms trade protest next week.
Thousands of demonstrators are planning to descend on Brighton and Hove during the May Bank Holiday for what they describe as a “mass street party against, war, greed and militarism”.
The protest was originally planned as part of an ongoing campaign against EDO MBM/ITT, the factory on Home Farm Road in Moulsecoomb, which makes arms components.
But since the G20 events in London, increasing numbers of anarchist and anti-capitalist groups from around Britain have been planning to widen the scope of the demonstration.
This week the group behind the protest, Smash EDO, have published a map of 35 city centre businesses they say have supplied or invested in ITT, including McDonald’s, American Express, BP and Barclays Bank.
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Another G20 policeman in trouble as May Day looms
Human rights watchers on high alert as police prepare for protests in London and Brighton
By Jack Bremer
30 Apr, 2009
The ramifications of the policing of the G20 protest on April 1 continue to reverberate in London with the resignation of a Metropolitan Police officer who posted "inappropriate comments" on a website.
The officer was not named by acting Deputy Commissioner Tom Godwin when he made the announcement today. Nor was the precise nature of the officer's online offence.
But it follows the disciplining or temporary suspension of three other policemen as a result of their behaviour on or around April 1 - one for seeming to strike the newsvendor Ian Tomlinson, who died later the same day; another for striking a woman who was attending a vigil for Tomlinson on April 2; the third, a north London constable called Rob Ward, for using the social networking site Facebook to announce that he planned to use the excuse of the G20 protest to "bash some long-haired hippies".
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Human rights observers are now on high alert for May Day protests planned in London tomorrow, Friday, May 1, and in Brighton on Bank Holiday Monday, May 4.
Demonstrators on May 1 are expected to gather at Clerkenwell Green at midday and then march to Trafalgar Square for a rally at 4.30pm. But there is also talk of a protest group known as the Space Hijackers planning to demonstrate outside the Bank of England - the scene of the attack on Ian Tomlinson - in protest at what they see as Britain's gradual slip into a "surveillance state".
Details of the Brighton gathering on May 4 are less clear. It is advertised by Smash EDO as a "street party against war and greed" but the timing and route of the demonstration and the anticipated numbers are not yet known.
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May Day protests turn ugly as violent clashes erupt on the streets of Brighton
By Daily Mail Reporter
5 May, 2009
A May Day protest descended into violence yesterday as anti-war demonstrators clashed with police in Brighton, where thousands of visitors had flocked to enjoy the bank holiday.
Three police officers were injured after scuffles with mask-wearing activists who organised a march through the city's streets. One man was arrested.
At one point activists climbed up scaffolding onto the roof of a Barclays bank branch and unfurled a banner as part of the protest against an arms factory in the city.
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‘Mayday! Mayday!’ Smash EDO Brighton: anti-war march clashes with police
Josh Jones
4 May, 2009
Hundreds of people from all over the country met in Brighton today to protest against the war, capitalism, and the arms trade. Organised by the Smash EDO movement, which for years has been campaigning against the EDO/ITT weapons factory based in Brighton, the protest started off very peacefully and remained generally positive throughout the day.
Mounted police outside McDonalds
After passing peacefully past the Clock tower, down Queens Road and through North Laine, the protest clashed with police on London Road. A heavy police presence blocked part of the road outside McDonalds, and minor scuffles quickly escalated as mounted and riot police forced through crowds to protect the building. A smoke-bomb lit by protesters, combined with a push forward from mounted police, frightened shoppers and nearly split the protest in two.
From then on, the protest became a game of cat-and-mouse - although it was sometimes hard to tell who was the cat and who the mouse. Protesters managed to force back mounted police several times, while police hastily re-grouped around the protest as it moved into residential districts and through Preston Park. However, neither protesters nor police seemed to have a plan as such, and after much walking and a few minor scuffles - including the arrest of one man by riot police - the protest moved back into the town centre.
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From the Port Liberation Front, with love
Will they ignore us now as we try as best we can to slow down the military shipments heading out of Fort Lewis to their final destination in Afghanistan?
The other night, one of the resistors was approached by some spouses and partners of soldiers in the Stryker Brigade that is in the process of shipping out. She explained to the military wives, who are about to lose their loved ones to a far and distant land and perhaps lose them forever, why we were out there and what we were doing. They were
supportive. They were thankful. They don't want their husbands to go to Afghanistan. We don't either.
Last night, the resistance continued. Shipments started leaving Fort Lewis around 9:00pm. Scouts were located up and down the I-5 corridor. People were in position and then the HugBots – three people in robot costumes and concrete lockboxes – were unleashed in front of a convoy of Stryker vehicles on the off-ramp to Exit 137 near the Port of Tacoma. They jumped out of a van that came out of nowhere, in the midst of several cop cars and quickly locked down. The van drove off with the back doors still swinging open into the dark of the night. The HugBots spent a considerable amount of time there, although they were dragged off by the cops in a short matter of time. The fire department had to come to cut up the lockboxes and help remove them. Two street medics were at the scene the whole time while this happened and were never arrested. The HugBots ended up in jail and people are working on getting them out.
Do you know the significance of this?
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