Category Archives: Social psychology

Warning: Google spies on us all. Here is its “privacy policy”

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 11. December 2017 by

Information we collect: your name, email address, telephone number or credit card to store with your account, when you watch a video on YouTube, visit a website that uses our advertising services, or view and interact with our ads and content. This information includes your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number. We collect your search queries, phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls, Internet protocol address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, your location, including IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide Google with information on nearby devices, Wi-Fi access points and cell towers. We may also store information on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches. 


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Karl Rove’s Prophecy

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 24. October 2017 by

The triumph of political untruth has brought into being a vast system of political intimidation. Remember then that the intimidator does not really care what you believe or not, but impresses you with the fact that you have no choice. That is the essence of the exercise of brute power. With false flag events the circumstantial evidence sometimes appears quite transparently false and, indeed could be interpreted as having been purposeful.

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Western spy agencies build ‘cyber magicians’ to manipulate online discourse

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 6. March 2014 by

Secret units within the ‘Five Eyes” global spying network engage in covert online operations that aim to invade, deceive, and control online communities and individuals through the spread of false information and use of ingenious social-science tactics. Such teams of highly trained professionals have several main objectives, such as “to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet” and “to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable,” The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald reported based on intelligence documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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Is it unthinkable that US leaders would mastermind the murder of 3,000 of their citizens?

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 2. December 2008 by

One of the arguments advanced by those who reject the possibility that US leaders had masterminded the events of 9/11, is that such conduct is simply unthinkable. When pressed why this would be unthinkable, the usual answer is that leaders of a democratic country don’t do “such things”, let alone Americans to other Americans. Such thought is deemed outrageous. Let us examine such outright rejection in some detail.

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Remote-control Warriors Suffer War Stress Remote-control Warriors Based In The US Suffer From Psycho

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 11. August 2008 by

Remote-control Warriors Suffer War Stress Remote-control Warriors Based In The US Suffer From Psychological Stresses, Too MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, Calif., Aug. 7, 2008 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/07/ap/national/main4328488.shtml (AP) The Air National Guardsmen who operate Predator drones over Iraq via remote control, launching … Read more . . .

Totalitarianism and Obedience

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 31. December 2007 by

Totalitarianism and Obedience by Sarah Meyer (This article will now have 'Updates' which relate to totalitariansm in USA/UK. Most recent update: 30.04.07) My thoughts to publish this writing by Vasily Grossman followed the story, UPDATE: “Wash? Post joins “NYTimes? in … Read more . . .

The Spiral of Silence: Summary

Aldeilis (EN) Posted on 27. July 2005 by

The Spiral of Silence http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/theory/spiral.html Summary: The Spiral of Silence is a model of why people are unwilling to publicly express their opinions when they believe they are in the minority. The model is based on three premises: people have … Read more . . .