It Yelps Out In Pain As It Strikes You

I have some friends and associates who've had some recent bad experiences with a certain famous tech company that inspired me to consult Googliath on teh Interwebz. What I found, astounded me. From Hawaii to Alaska, from California to Maine to Florida....all across the country, small businesses everywhere are being preyed upon by this unethical 21st century version of a protection racket.

To summarize before we get into the meat of this post, after a lot of research, this is my recommendations to anyone who is a business owner or makes the advertising/marketing decisions for your company:

Don't create a page on their website for your company.

If someone creates one for you, don't claim it.

Don't let a bunch of 5 star reviews put up by legitimate customers that initially appear on your page fool you and suck you in. Once those start to accumulate, their sales reps will begin to call you to get you to buy in to their scheme.

Once you make it clear you won't pay to play with them, your 5 star reviews will get hidden with a tiny link on the page saying "These Reviews are not Recommended" while the reviews that are allowed to remain posted and used to make your 'official' rating will be your one to two star negative reviews, giving you a bad overall rating.

They'll call you back and imply that advertising with them will get your positive reviews back up and your negative ones to be "not recommended." It may or may not happen once you pay. I've heard of folks that paid, and still had their positive reviews hidden while the negatives remained, and I've heard of others that got what they paid for. Either way, it's just not worth it.

Let the sales reps say whatever they want, just DON'T give them any credit or debit card info. No matter what they promise, once they got your digits and ID, they will bill your account repeatedly until you actually get your card or bank to put a stop on them.

There is no quantifiable results or measurables to definitively show a Return On Investment for their "services."

If your a franchise owner of a large corporate franchise or a Big Biz outlet, have at it. A page on their site will do just fine. It's not the big fish they're after, because what they're doing, skirts the edge of legality. They have been constantly taken to court in the past, so they know the fine line they walk to keep their practice barely above the law. Also, for most small businesses, the owners cannot afford a protracted legal battle and will just surrender and move on once they manage to disentangle themselves...after they already made off with a couple of months of billings you never explicitly agreed to authorize.

You never sign any contract or paperwork...but as soon as you sign up and create a profile and enter your credit or debit card info, they have you right where they want you...like a blood sucking leech. You can only get them off of you with a lot of pain and blood loss. And if you're a small business -start up with very little margin for error and on the cusp of make-or break financially, they will hit you up with excessive charges to your account when you can least afford it.

Worse yet, not only do they do anything they can to convince you over the phone to sign up to get your billing information, they don't even pretend to try and help your business succeed. They do nothing for you except try to sell you on signing up for more advertising contracts.

And if you try to stop their billing and "turn off" their advertising "services, " they will do everything in their power to put the worst face forward on your page on their site. They will deliberately select the least flattering and/or irrelevant photos on the front, they will "not recommend" aka hide all your four and five star reviews, they will feature all the one and two star reviews, and they will put links to all of your businesses competitors all over your page to get visitors to take their business elsewhere.

Here's a video some small business owners here on my island made to demonstrate what these "business" practices would look like in the real world:

Here's one business owner that used to troll other small business owners that complained online about these business practices, until he had his own experiences with them. After seeing the error of his ways, he actually created a wordpress blog to fight back.

Check out his story:

The sad thing here, again, is that I've been saying for years...that everybody who thinks that Y3lp is out to extort you is...is...is kind of a conspiracy theorist, or ridiculous. Again...now I've never been a fan of Y3lp elite culture...but you can see on a lot of websites where I've said that all these people that are like, "I got two bad reviews, Y3lp is extorting me...blah, blah, blah, blah..." I make fun of them! I'll say like,  "You know, it couldn't possibly be that you're charging $100 more than Apple for a crappy part...no...it has to be that Y3lp is extorting you!" 

I've always trolled a lot of these people that think that Y3lp is extorting them, and that they're getting bad reviews because of Y3lp extortion. I've always thought that was crap. 

Until now.

Here's a roofing company owner warning other small business owners. He includes video clips of his conversations he had with company sales reps on the phone. More importantly, this vid focuses on the sales pitch hook that promises a free $900 advertising credit if he signs up. Looks like they offer this just to get your credit card info which they then begin to bill regularly month after month, way above and beyond that $900 "free" credit they initially offer.




Here's a one man Plumbing company owner sharing his experience:

Here's where I believe Y3lp traps businesses...it's because businesses cannot opt out of Y3lp...at all. Okay, because it's a matter of public record and public concern...and so, anybody can add a business into Y3lp...so...and not for bad reasons. If you, let's say, enjoy the business and they provide a great service, you want to tell other people about it. You post on Y3lp, you're the first to review, you add a business in there...other people add...other people, you know, join in and add there reviews...what happens is that Y3lp calls that business and they say, "Have you ever thought about advertising with us? A lot of people seem to like your business." And what ends up happening, is that the company can either say ya or nay.

If they say ya, then they gotta go in there and claim their business -- and this is what happened to me --  my reviews dropped, because I claimed my business but I don't want to advertise with Y3lp. I had the mentality of 'Hey, everythings doing great, and its free, so why not just keep it going?' My reviews dropped, and they went from the posted reviews to the hidden reviews....or as they call it now, "Reviews not currently Recommended," which actually discredits all of those reviews because "not recommended." So....you cannot opt out of Y3lp....basically you got to pay to play...or else.

These sorts of video's are all over YouTube and Bitchute. One could spend hours watching them all. The sheer number of anecdotal experiences found on teh Interwebz sure makes a compelling case for anyone that runs a small business to avoid getting sucked into their racket.

But there is also plenty of websites of small business owners who got stung and are plenty mad...and you look at their website posts and blogs, and you'll see their comments just filled with angry business owners all over the country. The sheer number of complaints is astounding.

Here's one guy who's business is sales and marketing on teh Interwebz. He does a great post on his website explaining his clients and his own experience with this company, and he offers a great breakdown as to why it is a fraudulent racket, especially when you compare the advertising services you get with this company compared to other big Tech company's like Googliath. Here's some excerpts from his site:

So the idea here is similar to Google AdWords, when someone searches for a term related to your business, your listing shows up (as, “Sponsored Result”) with the hopes that your business gets clicked on.

Here’s the caveat though, Y3lp is charging you per impression basis instead of per click basis.  What this means is that whenever your listing shows up in this manner, it counts against your total allotted amount that you paid of (so you are paying “cost per impression”).  If it were click based (cost per click) you would get charged ONLY if your ad gets clicked.

This brings into a few questions, the least of which are:

• So how much is it per impression?
  
• How many impressions can you expect to get (this is of course dependent on the search volume) – bear in mind that this is a LOCAL search and review online system. Which means that you are really throttling the number of impressions your ads will show up because the number of LOCAL folks doing searches related to you business within your area is a tiny tiny fraction of the searches done nationally combined.
• Are you able to test different the keywords with which your listing shows up (which is costing you money)?
• Are you able to TRACK the results you are getting on fine details?  I.e. what keywords are converting, when is the best time to show your Y3lp sponsored listing, etc.  Basically, questions that any savvy AdWords expert would ask.
• How much control do you have over this campaign?  After all, you ARE paying for it.

Before I Go On, Let’s Talk About Leakage
What is “leakage“?  Well, in digital marketing term, it means actions taken by your website visitor that doesn’t contribute to your ultimate goal (such as capturing the lead, making the sale, etc.)  This often includes having active links which serve as distractions that take the visitor ELSEWHERE.

Now… take a good look at just about any Y3lp review page, do you see leakage? Do you see links everywhere?  But more importantly (and relevantly from a marketing perspective), do you see the box that says, “People Who Viewed This Also Viewed…”?  Do you see how these links tend to be links to direct competition to the business review page you are viewing?

So you are looking at $100 CPM (cost per thousand impressions) to $200 CPM to advertise on their network. In the AdWords world, this is ridiculously high for paying CPM unless you are in some highly competitive and profitable business like real estate and 401k portfolios (oh wait… given the crash of the economy, DOH!).  Even then you are pushing it a bit.  Folks who are paying high CPM on the pay per click networks have thoroughly tested their campaigns, have tracked EVERY single detail, and have all the control in the world.

But on Y3lp?  Hellllll no!  You don’t know what your “campaign” looks like let alone have any control over it.  You are like a blind mouse and they are the big bad kitty toying with you.  And yet, they are still charging you an arm and a leg.  And one quick look around Y3lp will tell you that most businesses are NOT high-price markets, they are mostly smaller markets like restaurants.

This brings me to my second point of frustration when dealing with these Y3lp folks, where’s the proof of these impressions people paid for???  Where are my listings showing up?  And what’s the conversion rate??  Again, they tell you nothing and keep you blind.

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Okay, so I had the opportunity to speak to a Y3lp representative on the phone on my client’s behalf.  Armed with my knowledge of AdWords, marketing, the works… I came prepared.  Sadly for the person on the other line, that’s more than I can say for her.
I asked about all the things I mentioned before (about click through rates versus impressions, how I can track my campaign, how much control I have, etc.) and she was STUMPED.  She couldn’t understand why we would care about such matters.  As a matter of fact, I’d venture so far as to say she didn’t know JACK about marketing, and yet, she’s representing a team that’s suppose to help us market.

But what REALLY got to me was when I asked her about a 24 hour backout clause, which means that within 24 hours of the start of the campaign, if I am not satisfied with the results I am seeing, I can cancel.  Nope she said… and the reason is because it takes time for the program to ramp up for me to really start seeing results.

EHHH?  It’s the internet we are talking about here right?  I can track clicks fairly easily right?  Hmmm… okay.

So then I went on and asked what is the minimum sign up period, to which she replied, “6 months” OMGWTFBBQ, 6 month minimum at $325 a month where you have NO IDEA what’s going on? Thanks but no thanks.

As with all the other sites out there, have a gander at his guys comments. People from all over the country weigh in on their experiences.

If you're considering paying for advertising from this tech firm, do some more reading before you agree on the phone and enter your billing information into their sign up page.

Here's another marketing business owner who points out that there is really no legal remedy for what they do. He cites court rulings from the 9th Circuit Court that side with the company, allowing them to continue to prey on small businesses all across the nation:

In September 2014, the 9th Circuit Court decided a case that practically could have been named Everybody v. Y3lp Inc. The case involved a group of companies which believed that Y3lp had “extorted or attempted to extort advertising payments from them by manipulating user reviews and penning negative reviews of their businesses.” In their case, the plaintiffs argued that Y3lp had done this by distorting their rankings - removing positive reviews and publishing negatives ones - and then having their sales people use that as leverage to get them to buy advertisements on the review site.

But the court stated in their ruling, “As Y3lp has the right to charge for legitimate advertising services, the threat of economic harm that Y3lp leveraged is, at most, hard bargaining.”

This subject has been talked about ad nauseam (here’s a good overview from shortly after the case was decided), so I won’t go into too much detail here. Suffice to say, for the past several years, Y3lp’s position has been, “We don’t extort our customers, but hey, we totally can if we feel like it.” They say they don’t extort businesses, but when even your own shareholders have sued you for “undisclosed business practices, including but not limited to requiring business customers to pay to suppress negative reviews,” something ain’t right.

While this company was initially launched as a service to help consumers find good eats at restaurants, they've expanded to all sorts of business ventures. If your a small business owner in any kind of industry, beware! Here's the experience of a small time vacation rental biz in NY:

What is a Y3lp? A short sharp cry, especially of pain or alarm.

So what is the big deal you ask?

Well, in case you have been living under a rock the past 15 years since Y3lp was founded it has put countless businesses out of business simply because of the negative Y3lp reviews they got. In reality, there is nothing funny about Y3lp.

Y3lp is simply a Bully with a cattle prod.

In the rest of this page, we will attempt to politely stick Y3lps cattle prod and illusion of strength up their ***.

Another review website named Trustpilot offers a similar review format, and they have a page for trustpilot users to rate Y3lp. Here's a recent review from one day ago:

If someone calls your business from Y3lp trying to get you to advertise with them, HANG UP ASAP. I work for a small family owned business and I would never speak to them until 11/21/19 when the guy told me my dad had told him to speak with me. My dad was out of town so I just assumed he really did refer the Y3lp person to me. I mean who would lie about that? After a conversation, I agreed to a 7 day trial and provided my company card info. He did NOT tell me that I would be charged automatically after 7 days. I was very clear with him that I would need to speak with my dad before committing to anything. I asked him to send me an e-mail with all of the information he could provide and my plan was to review the e-mail once received and share with my father. The e-mail never came.

Around 12/11 or 12/12/19, somebody in my store was talking about advertising and I remembered the Y3lp conversation and asked my dad why he directed them to me. He said he may have mentioned my name to the guy but that he was very clear about how he had no intention of signing up for anything with anyone until after January 1 2020.

At that point, I realized that I had been lied to and went into the Y3lp for business owners page and made sure I clicked on anything that gave me any option to "cancel" any type of service. At that point, I was unaware of any charges from Y3lp so I assumed all was good. I received my credit card statement on 12/24 and discovered a charge for $148.94 on Dec 1 from Y3lp. How could we be billed for a free 7 day trial??? I called the billing dept for Y3lp and told them I was furious and how the account executive had manipulated me by lying to me. Long story short, she not only could not help me, she told me there was another charge to my card for almost $300 on Jan 1 that I wasn't even aware of!!! I told her I needed to speak with a manager or supervisor to resolve this and she said she could submit a request but that it would take 3-5 business days for someone to call me back!!. ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?!?!

The salespeople blow up your phone even after you tell them to leave you the hell alone but I can't get someone to call me back about a problem for 3-5 business days?!?!? I told her not to bother because my next call would be to my bank to dispute ALL of the charges. We will NEVER do business with them and neither should anyone else!

I have a friend who owns his own business, and this is almost precisely what he experienced as well.

Here's a site that has reviews from former employees detailing the corporate culture of a company that practices this barely legal extortion racket.

This company has built a solid reputation of infamy and villainy...to the point where some people got together and produced a documentary to expose it. The following is the trailer on YouTube:

Click to view Trailer

And here's the movie posted in it's entirety over at Bitchute:

All I can say in conclusion?

SPREAD THE WORD

SANCTION, BOYCOTT & DIVEST THESE BASTARDS

Dante Was Right

Dante condemned those who commit violence against God and Nature to his Seventh Ring of Hell.

Of those who commit such violence, one of these condemned acts is an integral part of our Brave New World Order, and it violently infests and infects every aspect of our current existence....yet most are completely inured to it. Most don't recognize it for the violent crime against God and Nature that it truly is.

Because most people do not have the requisite mind development to recognize the truth hidden in plain site. Most don't recognize the basic nature of their car loans, credit card balances, signature loans, house mortgages, student loans, tax payments, account deposits, or any other modern financial activity as violence.

Only a certain kind of mind can see this violence against God and His creation. A mind formed by extensive training in literacy, is the only mind capable of comprehending just how simple of a solution is to be found that would end all of the problems that plague humanity in the 21st century.

This focused discernment can only come from intense study of the written word. A mind that is not numbed-down and desensitized by innumerable hours absorbed in consuming flashing images and emotionally manipulative sounds from a screen and sound system as the primary leisure activity of choice whenever they have time off from their main vocation in life.

A mind that keeps itself sequestered from the regularly scheduled programming of mass media broadcasting and the group-think environments and Delphi-technique programming reinforcements that are in all of our cultural and educational institutions.

A mind that is consumed with the quest to find the hidden, forbidden and verboten histories of the world...the historical accounts written by the literate minds of man that were developed before the advent of mass media technology.

A literate mind is capable of reading many different writings from many different minds from many different perspectives that comes from many different epochs, cultures and religious influences. It takes a literate mind to read from so many variable sources and discern the fundamental truths of the human experience from them. It takes a high level of literate development to make it through many voluminous tomes with expansive vocabularies and near-extinct styles of prose and references to past cultures and conventions that are no longer commonly recognized cues.

The readings can be difficult and may require many re-readings to achieve comprehension. And it takes a literate mind trained in discernment to keep from being short circuited by all the cognitive dissonance triggers that have been inculcated into the minds of modern man by mass media indoctrination...those triggers deliberately implanted to try and keep one from reading all the BadThink from times long past.

The highly literate mind that endeavors to read the suppressed and censored historical accounts of peoples all over the world through many different epochs in time, has to eventually recognize the cycle. The only way to fix what ails us all is to break that cycle.

This is why the modern world promotes functional illiteracy. Why THEY want us to be able to read just enough to follow orders, fill out loan applications, file our taxes and obey authority...but not literate enough to read the expositions of brilliant literate minds of our past. It is the best way to disconnect us from our heritage and our birthright, and to keep us from learning about the answers to our present day problems that can be found from our past.

I said the answer is simple, but that doesn't mean it would be easy.

On the contrary, the affects of effecting this simple solution would be extremely cataclysmic. For the edifice of insanity that is 21st century "clown world," has been built up to an almost impossible towering height, and removing the lynch pin found in the foundation of this massive abstract construction called "civilization" would result in spectacular disaster that would herald The End of the World As We Know It.

Nevertheless, by nature of it's very design, it must and it will fall. But if it falls under it's own bloated weight of degenerate corruption, THEY who were behind it's exponential expansion over the ages will once again work to control the narrative and mislead the people as to the causes of the disaster. If they succeed, they will once again have used the illusory controlled demolition to allow them to restart the construction of another renewed towering behemoth of insanity similar to our present vulture culture of insane degeneracy.

Nevertheless, the answer still remains quite simple:

A permanent Jubilee.

Total debt forgiveness worldwide on all loans big and small....followed up by an eternally and vigilantly and ruthlessly enforced prohibition on all forms of Usury, for all time and eternity.

That would truly be apocalyptic.

For it is the extensive reading of hard to find books, papers, pamphlets and scriptures throughout human history that one starts recognize the cycle of usury. The cycle of usurers living in parasitic sustenance on the backs of the majority of a host society until they are forcefully removed. This is almost always followed by the subsequent thriving of that society...until inevitably the usurious parasites are once again allowed to re-establish and re-colonize the host culture. This is ultimately what we commonly refer to as the historical phenomena of "The Rise and Fall of Civilizations."

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, as long as usury remains acceptable by any human society, the parasitic usurers will continue to keep humanity on a cycle of perpetual programming that promotes degradation, arrested development and debt-enslavement so they can live in luxury off of the misery and suffering of the rest of humanity.

Once you learn to recognize this cyclical pattern, you see it play out quite predictably in the historical accounts of many different countries, societies and settlements throughout every age and epoch. From Sumeria to Babylon to Egypt to Greece to Rome to Iberia to Netherlands to Gaul to Britannia to present-day America.... once usury becomes a commonly accepted practice in any civilization, the fate of that civilization is sealed.

But the usurious parasites know this all to well.

So they use their powers that they leverage from usury to socially engineer the masses of humanity to keep us all divided and conquered, confused, distracted, dumbed-down and perpetually entertained so that we do not notice just how enslaved we have become to our base-animal natures. With the leverage of usury-empowered population control, T.H.E.Y. have reduced us to functionally illiterate, fungible economic units to be exploited unto death.

Happy New Year!  :-)

Na Mele Po Kalikimaka

Aloha kakou! While striving to perpetuate the reason for the season, I wish to share some of Hawaii's finest Na Mele for our Lord and Savior, Iesu Christo.

First up, we got former Wayne's World bad girl Tia Carrere paying tribute to her island roots, singing three verses of Silent Night, all in 'Olelo Hawaii:

Here's Amy Hanaiali'i singing the "Hapa" version - in both English and Hawaiian over at Honolulu City Hall back in 2008:

Next up, Kiho'alu virtuoso, Keola Beamer, with a Slack Key Guitar instrumental version of Do You Hear What I Hear?:

Here's the two Willies - Uncle Willie K and Willie Nelson, doing a version of Away in the Manger:

The Brother's Cazimero - Hawaiian music's most legendary duo, give their trademark jazz medley treatment to two Christ Mass classics:

Here's an 'Ukulele feature, Hawaiian-contemporary styled rendition of Carol of the Bells:

This is a Hawaiian song not to widely known, but the lyrics in 'Olelo Hawaii are definitely apropos to the reason for the Season:

"Mele Kalikimaka Ia Kakou, I nei 'ia hau'oli la hanau o ka haku, keiki hiwahiwa ke akua!"

Roughly translated: Merry Christmas to all, on this happy birth day of our Lord, the Son of God.

Here's a unique version of the Little Drummer Boy, performed by Noelani and the Leo Nahenahe Singers with traditional Hula percussion implements and sung in 'Olelo Hawaii:

Another one from Amy Hanai'ali'i, Hamau E Na Kanaka:

And for our grand finale, this one is undoubtedly Hawaii's favorite Christmas rendition of all time - O Holy Night by Uncle Willie K. Now my favorite version of Uncle playing this song is one I've already posted here in Christmas past. When you're done here, go check it out again. World class. I've seen Uncle Willie perform many, many times over the years. The man can legit sing Opera status, and he can shred guitar with the best of em. 

This version I post here and now is special, cause it's just Uncle doing it live, one take, with no accompaniment, just Uncle Willie K and his Guitar....enjoy!

To all 30 or so people that still bother to read my blather here....Mele Kalikimaka Me Ke Hau'oli Makahiki Hou my friends! God bless!

Mere Churchianity

Just read this harsh, judgemental, far-right screed condemning our Godly brothers and sisters of X-ianity503c Inc., by some crazy right wing fundie commenter over at the Unz Review. It is so discriminatory and hateful, I just had to reproduce it in it's entirety so my fellow believers can see just what kind of ignorance and bigotry we face from the evangelical cis-Male Patriarchy in 2019!

Behold the backwards mindset of these sexist-misogynists who want to take us all back to those dreadful 1950's when our sisters-in-Christ were oppressed and enslaved in the kitchens! They want to undo all of our progress and treat all women as nothing more than broodmares with no choices to ever be made without Cis-male approval! No leadership roles, no careers, no educational credential attainment, no access to Planned Parenthood!?!? Really?!? These backward cretins want to undo all of the progress we have made, and if their dangerous ideas gain popularity, they will destroy our Church!

The danger is real my Brothers and Sisters. Try not to become nauseated as you read such vile HateSpeech:

Christianity? Neither that resolution nor you are part of Christianity. What you represent is a churchian cult offshoot of real Christianity that treats Christ as a lackey of the Almighty State, in order to worship the Great Goddess of Equality.

In churches it’s typified by a cult of feelings and niceness that scorns judgment. It pours pseudo love over evil like syrup over poison in order to be “welcoming”, “diverse”, “multicultural”, “non-judgmental”. It equalizes all human actions by semantic games and rationalizations. Good and evil become meaningless, everything is accepted and somehow forgiven, God’s Love never includes Judgment, the sinner is never responsible for her sin, and everybody gets into some feelzgud version of heaven.

What has happened is that churches have become thoroughly effeminate and emasculated. They purport to be Christian, but they are not. They are infected with feminism. Any kind of perceived masculinity is downplayed or eliminated. These churches display every single worst symptom of the feminist mindset, including seduction, enticement, passivity, emotionalism, goalless pursuit of power, fantasizing, mindless nurturing, and hypergamous submission to alpha evil.

Instead of recognizing and resisting evil-doers, churchian policies entice more sin and evil into the world so that it falls directly upon the traditional patriarchal family in order to tear it apart. The excuse they offer is the saccharine banality that love is some kind of all-purpose salve, thereby assuming a human love that deliberately mischaracterizes God the Father’s Love. The unstated rationale is to passively submit and sacrifice yourself to evil as the only way to expiate your sins, thereby completely dispensing with the Son of God’s sacrifice on the Cross.

Christian churches have morphed into a monstrous inversion of everything that used to make Christianity strong and believe in itself. They cannot possibly continue in this way. They lose members every single day, and will eventually cease to exist as viable entities. At best, they will go the way of the official state churches in China.

The only way forward is to lead Christians back to the Truth of the Logos. Churches must be purged of every last vestige of feminist influence, from the pastor/priest right on down to the music. A revitalized church must return to its roots, to be 100% patriarchal, judgmental, and militant, in order to celebrate the nations commanded by God, and the divisions of God’s Creation.

I. Can't. Even.

Thank the Goddess far-right fundie wing nuts like this have been purged from our churches and exiled to the fringes of the extremist snake-handling, tongues-babbling cults who are all clinging bitterly to their Bibles and guns!

They just can't deal with the facts that our community of multi-cultural tolerance and vibrancy continues to grow and spread the universal message of inclusion, diversity, and acceptance for all! No matter what border they may have crossed, or what non-specific gendered orifices they prefer for their consensual relational recreation...we must love and accept all those who seek refuge in our communities and homes!

There is no better way to signal our virtue!

The Oppression of Suppression

Commenter Mik left the following on my last post:

"Normally your blog address autocompletes or shows up in the first few results.

But this week you have been hidden to the 2nd page of search results with no autocomplete.

Gaagle censors hard at work..."

 Long time reader and most favored commenter of all time, Anonymous, concurred:

"Mik is correct, could not find your blog via google search for the same reason. Duckduckgo does result in your site at the top under "Hawaiian Libertarian", I was afraid this site got shoahed."

Ksmith chimed in:

"Yes! I too struggled to find your blog when I searched google."

My friends, the situation is much more dire than that. I'm at wits end and have nowhere else to turn, as I don't now how I'll be able to pull through my current predicament. The suppression of my virtual webpage rankings is pure oppression! But it's worse than that...much worse.

You see, not only has my Googliath rankings plummeted like a millstone around a pedos neck cast into the sea, but old pages from libtards and trollfarms on teh Interwebz that were dedicated to pillorying this squalid outpost in the fever swamps of conspiritard-land have also been pushed forward and highlighted as top ranking results on the first page of my Googliath search results.

All of a sudden on my stat counter page, I'm seeing sporadic visits from those old features on this blog, and I'm overcome with a crippling wave of nostalgia.

I miss all the attention I used to get when the mandrosphere was in it's heyday and I had a level of notoriety that invited critiques from internet luminaries found at bastions of towering intellects like Kiwi Farms. They are so important and influential, they got their own entries into teh Interwebz most prestigious encyclopedia.

 

Following that old linkage referrals, I found out to my surprise that back in 2016, this prestigious forum identified the proprietor of this blog as a Lolcow. What the hell is that?

"Lolcows are people and groups whose eccentric or foolish behavior can be "milked" for amusement and laughs."

Ya'all need to get it straight....I'm a whackaloon conspiritard that practices food magic. The Lolcow moniker will only work if it's a grass-fed, free-range, open-pastured Lolcow!

When I first followed the link and discovered this forum, I was overcome with a feeling of warmth that only comes with recognizing a new group of people who appear to have taken my blogging efforts to heart...

"Ah yes, Keoni Galt, whose greatest fear in life is non-organic food, and who tried to talk a friend of mine into going paleo/low-carb during her pregnancy. (Thank God the people who care about her stopped that before it got started.) He's paranoid as all hell, and there's nothing he won't politicize."

All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy...

Despite the insults, I must express appreciation for the kiwifarmer that nominated me for a Lolcow, because he finished up with a ringing endorsement of the blog:

"He writes this badly all the time on his blog. That is just scratching the surface of his madness."

 This guy gets it! Thanks to Kiwifarmers, I can finally understand and appreciate why normal, sane people object to all of my bad writing that barely scratches the surface of my madness. Some of those other kiwifarmers, however, failed to give me my just due and questioned my moral certitude:

"...it's kind of odd that he says you surrender your right to reason when you force someone to act against his will, and yet he owns guns. I guess killing a trespasser is morally better than asking him to leave or else."

I'm trying to figure out the train of logic here....by owning guns, I force someone to act against his will? Asking a trespasser to leave is morally better? I'm confused....oh wait, another kiwifarmer clarified:

"He doesn't bluntly state or show he owns fire arms, being a doomsday whiner I wouldn't rule out he's the hugest of faggots, the 22lr hoarder who's no gunz. God damn it I hate them so much."

This hateful homophobia is so hurtful! I can't even! Now I have to desperately seek out a safespace to gather myself together and try to bolster up my self-esteem so I can try and carry on...

Sadly, I'm not the only one who's been attacked by the hateful homophobes at Kiwifarms...

Clearly this person is mistaken. A hateful, transphobic racist promoting site like Kiwifarms would never receive boosted Googliath rankings in this currently enlightened age...this is 2019!

When I got to the final entry on my Lolcow thread, I discovered that I'm still good for the lulz afterall...even though the kiwifarmer who apparently nominated me for Lolcow status is no longer around their forum, my blogging still gives him legit cred for such productive Lolcow farming:

"@chimpburgers may be gone from us, but the cows he brought to us are still going strong. Mr. Galt posted this earlier this month ranting about the differences between "food" and "feed" (hint: anything that is fattening and thus, triggering to him, he calls "feed")"

It's called food magic, and it most definitely triggers me! Given the Kiwifarmer's linkage as proof of my Lolcow status, I quickly re-read the post she linked to in order to find out where I defined feed as "...anything fattening and thus, triggering:"

Food is grown, raised, harvested and processed -- and if not consumed while fresh -- preserved in as natural and organic a state as possible to keep most of it's nutritious and nourishing qualities intact.

Feed is mass produced by a few large multinational corporations using bio-technological innovations to quickly and efficiently manufacture product units ready for global distribution and a near infinite shelf life.

Clearly this fattening feed that triggers me is evidence of my paranoia...I can't even!

Speaking of fattening triggers...

...when I followed the other older link that enjoyed heightened Googliath rankings when searching for this blog URL found a link to an old page at the website of a person who is no stranger to the denizens of the Mandrosphere:

Mammoth Hunter!

I forgot this guy dedicated an article (Hawaiian Libertarian: “Misogyny is the key to male liberation from blue pill delusions.”) to myself back in 2012! Surely such an old article deserves the highest rankings when searching for the latest from a blogger 7 years later...

But my bemusement was short lived. The manboobz mammoth hunter has also had his good name attacked and smeared by the Kiwifarmers! His Lolcow title? David "Proud Cuck" Futrelle - Owner of "We Hunted The Mammoth" and Supreme White Knight"

Proof indeed that Kiwifarmers are part of a hate site that should be shutdown and thrown in jail by FedGov! Just look at the hateful, hurtful bigotry they subject him to:

"So he's feminism's biggest A-Log, huh?

Why did he change the name of his site? Was "Manboobz" considered "body-shaming"?

"Oh, I've read that blog a couple times. I could have sworn the owner was a stereotypical fat feminist lesbian, though I guess I wasn't that far off."

"He also runs this increadibly dumb tumblr: {link redacted} Pretty much just there to mock women who aren't drinking 3rd wave koolaid while both failing to be funny and failing to see the irony of shitting on women being ok when he does it."

"Weird how these freaks always have history of defending child pornography. Actually, not weird at all, hopefully this fat fuck has his CP stash found and is sent to rot in jail."

"Futrelle has made himself an expert on the “manosphere”" such an achievement!"

"And, still, Futrelle looks less likable than the people he writes about. Imagine that."

"I think it’s safe to say Dave himself has never been on a date before. The only women I imagine he’d ever have a chance of dating are literal whales, certainly not any decently attractive girls."

"Chimping out by stealing content from people he hates seems like all this guy does. lol"

Wow, the Kiwifarmers let me off pretty easy in comparison! I wonder if searches for Futrelle's website on Googliath turn up Kiwifarms Lolcow thread in the top rankings like it does for mine?

{quick google search}

Nope.

I guess not all Lolcows are equal, some are more equal than others.

Whackaloon Conspiritards Always Double-Down

It's like current year 2019, and like it's so frustrating to see so many people still believe all these crazy conspiracy theories on teh Interwebz.

Like all these lunatic anti-vaxxers and their raving lunacies trying to mislead everyone into not giving their infants life-saving and essential vaccines! Behold the frothing-at-the-mouth insanity:

How irresponsible!

@ 18:00 - "...and so what you guys don't realize is...THAT'S how corrupt the entire thing is!"

Like who in the hell does this conspiritard think she is, calling the greatest healthcare system in the history of mankind corrupt?! Who would listen to such lunacy?

@ 26:19 - "My biggest thing is that Western Medicine and Big Pharma - the biggest thing T.H.E.Y. have done, is taken the Mother's intuition and squandered it and smashed it. Every single mother out there -- and you saw that in that video (Vaxxed II) when they went to give those shots, their souls screamed NO NO NO NO NO!!! -- all of you guys are feeling that. And it's an attack from everywhere...you're seeing it on TV that breast feeding is really not that necessary, and you don't need to stay home..it doesn't matter that your home with your kids...it doesn't matter what you feed - all of that is not true!" 

Thousands of babies are destined for sickness and death because of conspiritard's like her doubling-down and spreading fear amongst all the sheeple!

Same goes for all the imbeciles that watch our benevolent owners doing their best to protect us from the damaging rays of the evil sun and it's malevolent skin-cancer assault on humanity! I was at the beach last week and some fisherman were watching a high altitude jet lay a contrail across the entire southern skyline, and they were asking each other what the hell that jet was doing!?! What are T.H.E.Y. spraying? Their suspicious line of questioning made me weep in despair for humanities general stupidity....

Like, don't they know Geo-engineering is going to save us all?

Those idiots didn't understand that the nano-particle cloud streams that slowly dissipated into a graying cloud cover that drifted overhead is saving all us Hawaiian's in our dangerous tropical latitudes from skin cancer and the growing threat of Global Cooling -  Global Warming - Climate Change!!

For years, I would see our benevolent leadership's plan in action all over the US mainland whenever I traveled, and I kept wondering when they would finally bring their lifesaving program to my island home where we are all dying of mercury poisoning and skin cancer...then just a couple of months ago I saw my first jet laying down the life-giving contrails across the Hawaiian sky...HALLELUJAH, WE ARE GONNA BE SAVED!!!

I wish all these conspiritard's would fuckin' get a clue and learn get some higher education so they would understand...it's fuckin' science!

Unfortunately, chemtrailer conspiritards and whackaloon anti-vaxxers are only a small part of the problem we are all facing in present year 2019.

What really worries me is all this fear-mongering over the badly needed rollout of 5g technology across the country. Whackaloon conspirtards such as this guy and his so-called debunking efforts and citations to scientific research poses a direct threat to the advancement of vitally important technological progress!

Such fear-mongering propaganda as this must not be allowed to go unchallenged! The efforts of whackaloon conspiritards to promote such sensational memes and overwrought hyperbole might succeed in influencing enough people to oppose and hinder the development of this critical technology!

Never before have we been faced with the possibilities for downloading teh Pr0n to our phones at 666,666,666 megabytes per nanosecond while simultaneously allowing us lightning fast updates to our affirmation apps and virtue signalling posts to our social media newsfeeeeeds!!! We must all shut out the fear mongering luddites and crazies who would stand in the way of our brave new world order of technocratic nirvana!

It's up to our brilliant CEOs and progressive shareholders of Silicone Valley's elite information tech corporations to get more vigilant about protecting us all from being exposed to such dangerous ideas. It's time for our benevolent leaders to ramp up their efforts to shut down irresponsible and dangerous dialog between the extremist elements of the populace on teh Interwebz! Shadowbans, deplatformings, and memory-holing has never been more needed than now!

Otherwise, the extremists, the deplorables and the rest of the whackaloon conspiritards that are bitterly clinging to their guns, Bibles and food magic, might start to see things that aren't there and connect imaginary dots and make everyone jump to unfounded and spectacularly hysterical conclusions...

Everyone knows there's no aluminum in human brains! Even our most trusted fact checking site on teh Interwebz, Snopes,  says so!!!

It's not like the contrails are inundating our environment with nano-particles of it, nor are they a part of all the vaxxines and flooooshots our healthcare management specialists want to constantly inject into us... if these crazies keep doubling down on the irresponsible rhetoric, they may convince many people to avoid getting vital healthcare solutions that are oftentimes offered for FREE!!!!

Every time a person avoids taking advantage of the free shots available everywhere, the damage these whackaloon conspiritards inflict on society is exponentially magnified! This must be stopped! All this misformed disinformation being spread amongst the herd is hindering our progress! I mean, these raving lunatics take something innocuous like aluminum adjuvants that are injected directly into the bloodstream, and create all kind's of fantastic scenarios about what this does to the human body!

Ignore the rabid rabble...rest easy knowing government agencies like the dissenters for diseased controlz tell us about their healthcare management injectables at official sites found at a link like this: DubyaDubyaDubya(dot)cdc(dot)gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/adjuvants.html

Aluminum
Aluminum-containing adjuvants are vaccine ingredients that have been used in vaccines since the 1930s. Small amounts of aluminum are added to help the body build stronger immunity against the germ in the vaccine. Aluminum is one of the most common metals found in nature and is present in air, food, and water.

So there! It's a common metal, and it's been sprayed into  found in all of our air, food and water!

Nothing to see here, loonie tunes! All these whackaloon conspiritards that keep getting alarmed about the illuminati conspiracy theories...where do they get ideas like this? Where do all these fever dreams come from?

Next thing you know, they'll start putting forth ideas like 5g radiation towers, aluminum skies and adjuvant injections all providing the means for a doomsday kill switch that enables our oligarchical plutocrats the power to push a button and commence zapping all the aluminum that's been sprayed over and shot up into humanity for the past decade or more. It just doesn't make sense?! Who would believe such fantastical, deranged theories?!

But if you ask these crazies why anyone would do this, the more hysterical will almost immediately resort to the already debunked conspiracy theory that T.H.E.Y. want to achieve this ludicrous goal of maintaining 500000000 people in perpetual balance with nature! Only whackaloon conspiritards doubling down on the fever dreams of the lunatic fringes of teh Interwebz could come up with with sci-fi horror fiction doomsday scenarios such as this!

That so many people are starting to fall for such craziness is literally mind blowing...

All Isms Are Schisms

This post has been in my Draft folder for years. Reading the following comment from Vox Popoli regular Azure Amaranthine today, inspired me to finish it up and finally get it posted:

What measure is an ism? The moment it passes from service to God and fellow man to emerge as the object in itself, it becomes an idol. Isms divorced from righteous service ratify among false gods.

A man who praises capitalism and not God? In him, Capitalism. Is. Systematic. Greed.

And the capability or impetus-lacking who nonetheless still partake of the system will be slaves by any other name, dogs crushed at the bottom of the pile.

Great comment. As a former right-wing Rush Limbaugh listenin'- Fox News watchin' Republicon conservatard, it was finally recognizing what a con "Capitalism" was that helped me wake up from the fever dream of Two-Sided politics and reject Duhmockruh$ee once and for all.



Pick an "-ism" any "-ism" and you will always find a schism - which is the telltale sign of controlled opposition.

T.H.E.Y. don't want to see us unite, all they want us to do is keep on fussin' and fightin'

T.H.E.Y. don't want to see us live together, all they want us to do is keep on killin' one another...

The oldest method of control by the 1% of the 99% has always been to Divide and Conquer.

The ability to do so, comes from the power THEY attain through usury. With usury, THEY have the means of corrupting anyone they choose to, giving them access to the levers of power in the Government, media and all of any given society's institutions.

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above

With control of the Government - Media - Institution complex, THEY control our minds, by influencing our thoughts and behavior. THEY infiltrate and subvert our Churches and Schools to revise our histories to keep their methodologies of doing what THEY do, hidden...many times in plain sight.

Don't forget your history;
Know your destiny:
In the abundance of water,
The fool is thirsty.

If the definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over again, each time expecting a different outcome....

....and if as THEY always say "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them..." isn't it time we realize that "The more things change, the more they remain the same!" really belies the deceit behind the "change" THEY are always selling us?

Pick an "-ism" any "-ism" and you will always find a schism - which is the telltale sign of controlled opposition.

Come we go chant down Babylon one more time...

We're sick and tired of your ism and schism game....

So now you see the light...STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Generation Z

Those who study generational demographics for marketing and propaganda purposes have labeled the upcoming generation of youth as Generation Z, the Fascist-Racist-Sexist-Homophobic Alt-right has taken to referring to them as Generation Zyklon to represent a growing number of youth who are embracing Auntysemitism and rejecting the SJW programming, political correctness, affirmative action, the worship of racial diversity and the normalization of all manner of sexual perversity and gender dysphoria mental illness.

But most of all, they have earned the Zyklon designation for publicly questioning the undue influence of T.H.E.Y. whose members are in the top of nearly every industry of influence and control in our rapidly declining Western Civilization.

This, I think, is partially the result of having just come through 8 years of the most Pozzed Presidential Administration in history. During eight years of the fake president's reign of error, the poz progressive leftist commie deviants -- aka SJWs -- used the levers of centralized FedGov power to push the envelope of cultural marxism and legitimize the mass media promotion of degeneracy and cultural degradation to new historical lows for USA Inc.

But it can't be all due to having 8 years of a community organizer leading the country into the leftist abyss of equality and vibrancy. I have now come to believe the largest difference between Generation Z and past generations, is that we are seeing a generation that is being raised with the most powerful Soma ever devised - the Smartphone.

It's not Generation Zyklon, it's Generation Zombie.

Mutually assured delusions from the mobile affirmation device deluge has got humanity in the grips of a feverish compulsion that rivals any previous pandemic of substance addiction. The total iAssimilation of society is nearly complete.

The hallowed halls of Academentia are beginning to coin nomenclature to deal with the most dramatic change agent of human behavior in the 21st Century.

Ever hear of Nomophobia?
 

Have you ever experienced nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia)?  Nomophobia is the fear of losing your cellphone or having to go without it. Studies show that almost all Americans (95 percent) have a cellphone. Symptoms of nomophobia include panic, lack of ability to concentrate, and repeated checking of devices for updates. About 58 percent of men and 47 percent of women feel high stress when their cell phones are off. Smart phones are even replacing the need for laptops and desktop computers because of convenience and easy access. Also, less homes have traditional broadband service, making cellphone use the primary source of online activity.

One source says that a growing number of students take showers with their phones and if that doesn’t sound intimate enough, 34 percent of people interviewed in one study said they have answered their phone during “personal time” with their significant other.

That's if they even have a significant other. The drop in teenage dating and sexual activity has is in steep decline with Generation Zombie:

Teenagers from this group have grown up with social media and smart phones, meaning they spend far more time socialising with one another online than they do in person. The decline in dating corresponds to dwindling sexual activity among this cohort, Prof Twenge has found. Drawing on surveys of 11 million young people and a series of in-depth interviews she found that teenagers in their final year of school are going out less often than 13-year-olds did as recently as 2009.

Prof Twenge also noted that 56 per cent of 14 to 18-year-olds went out on dates in 2015 whereas for Generation X and Baby Boomers, it was around 85 per cent. Meanwhile, sexual activity among 14 and 15-year-olds has dropped by almost 40 per cent since 1991. The average teenager now has had sex for the first time by the time they are 17-years-old, a full year later than the average generation X.  

And it's not as if the kids are blissfully unaware of their addiction and it's effects on their social life, as Twenge notes in an interview she had with a 13 year girl:

She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone. That’s just the way her generation is, she said. “We didn’t have a choice to know any life without iPads or iPhones. I think we like our phones more than we like actual people.”

The effects of the smart phone on the brains of the 21st Century citizenry are even more significant when you consider that even if a person's phone is just sitting nearby it's owner unused for a few moments, it still has an effect on the zombified-mind experiencing phantom alert signalling:

A smartphone can tax its user’s cognition simply by sitting next to them on a table, or being anywhere in the same room with them, suggests a study published recently in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. It finds that a smartphone can demand its user’s attention even when the person isn’t using it or consciously thinking about it. Even if a phone’s out of sight in a bag, even if it’s set to silent, even if it’s powered off, its mere presence will reduce someone’s working memory and problem-solving skills....

....In other words: If you grow dependent on your smartphone, it becomes a magical device that silently shouts your name at your brain at all times. (Now remember that this magical shouting device is the most popular consumer product ever made. In the developed world, almost everyone owns one of these magical shouting devices and carries it around with them everywhere.)

Brings to mind that line from the movie Fight Club, "...the things you own, end up owning you."

Regularly Scheduled Programming: The Delphi Technique

 

"One of the more infamous consensus-building methods is known as the Delphi Technique. Curiously, it was named for the oracle at Delphi, a special spot in ancient Greece, where a crack in the earth was said to emit vapors. A priestess sat on a stool directly above those vapors and under a hallucinogenic spell, spoke gibberish. This gibberish was interpreted by high priests as a forecast of the future." - Dissent and the Delphi Technique

In 2019, a scientist sits in front of an array of digital screens and speaks in jargon-laden gibberish and a whole slew of fellow scientists logon to babble in assent as they forge the unquestionable holy consensus.

The high priests of the Mass Media Industrial Complex interpret the scientist's gibberish and cast a hallucinogenic spell through their worldwide digital broadcasts that all global citizens must obey or face being cast into the pit of digital ostracism...social media de-platforming! How do we cope with getting shadow-banned and can no longer receive the virtual validation to our defacedbook posts on our Orwellian monitoring devices smart phones? Where do we find that safe space where our twatter accounts have the approved checkmarks and our instaham posts showing our latest fast feed meal experiences to signal our virtues to our fellow denizens of the global feedlot?

Being shut out of the digital bazaar of carefully curated exhibitionism and voyeurism on teh Interwebz....a fate worse than death! So you better toe the line of our oracle matrix so you can remained plugged in and turned on....

This is Duh-mock-ruh-see at it's finest, worthy of export to all the world's foreign shores via fiat currency funded wars. It is leveraging the most powerful weapon in their arsenal, and relying on herd peer pressure to get we the sheeple to conform to the coordinated narrative. Everyone must have their way, but only if they do it the way T.H.E.Y. say.

Aren't you glad you live in a Brave New World Order of participatory Democracy full of fairness, equality, diversity, vibrancy and social justice for all?

From A Glossary of Terms:

Democracy - A variation of the Delphi Technique, applied society wide to manufacture consensus and divide and conquer the citizenry using social engineering tools like the Hegelian Dialectic. Works through the creation of election events with tightly controlled choices between candidates from two parties that appear to be opposing factions, but are in reality working towards the same goals in perpetuating the Corporate-Fascist State. Citizen participation is the key to gaining assent to their enslavement.

The Delphi Technique: Let’s Stop Being Manipulated!
by Albert V. Burns

More and more, we are seeing citizens being invited to “participate” in various forms of meetings, councils, or boards to “help determine” public policy in one field or another. They are supposedly being included to get ”input” from the public to help officials make final decisions on taxes, education, community growth or whatever the particular subject matter might be.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, surface appearances are often deceiving.
You, Mr. or Mrs. Citizen, decide to take part in one of these meetings.
Generally, you will find that there is already someone designated to lead or “facilitate” the meeting. Supposedly, the job of the facilitator is to be a neutral, non-directing helper to see that the meeting flows smoothly.

Actually, he or she is there for exactly the opposite reason: to see that the conclusions reached during the meeting are in accord with a plan already decided upon by those who called the meeting.

The process used to “facilitate” the meeting is called the Delphi Technique. This Delphi Technique was developed by the RAND Corporation for the U.S. Department of Defense back in the 1950s. It was originally intended for use as a psychological weapon during the cold war.

However, it was soon recognized that the steps of Delphi could be very valuable in manipulating ANY meeting toward a predetermined end.

How does the process take place? The techniques are well developed and well defined.

First, the person who will be leading the meeting, the facilitator or Change Agent must be a likable person with whom those participating in the meeting can agree or sympathize.

It is, therefore, the job of the facilitator to find a way to cause a split in the audience, to establish one or a few of the people as “bad guys” while the facilitator is perceived as the “good guy.”

Facilitators are trained to recognize potential opponents and how to make such people appear aggressive, foolish, extremist, etc. Once this is done, the facilitator establishes himself or herself as the “friend” of the rest of the audience.

The stage is now set for the rest of the agenda to take place. At this point, the audience is generally broken up into “discussion—or ‘breakout’—groups” of seven or eight people each. Each of these groups is to be led by a subordinate facilitator.
Within each group, discussion takes place of issues, already decided upon by the leadership of the meeting. Here, too, the facilitator manipulates the discussion in the desired direction, isolating and demeaning opposing viewpoints.

Generally, participants are asked to write down their ideas and disagreements with the papers to be turned in and “compiled” for general discussion after the general meeting is reconvened. This is the weak link in the chain, which you are not supposed to recognize. Who compiles the various notes into the final agenda for discussion? Ahhhh! Well, it is those who are running the meeting.

How do you know that the ideas on your notes were included in the final result? You Don’t! You may realize that your idea was not included and come to the conclusion that you were probably in the minority. Recognize that every other citizen member of this meeting has written his or her likes or dislikes on a similar sheet of paper and they, too, have no idea whether their ideas were “compiled” into the final result! You don’t even know if anyone’s ideas are part of the final “conclusions” presented to the reassembled group as the “consensus” of public opinion. Rarely does anyone challenge the process, since each concludes that he or she was in the minority and different from all the others.

So, now, those who organized the meeting in the first place are able to tell the participants and the rest of the community that the conclusions, reached at the meeting, are the result of public participation.

Actually, the desired conclusions had been established, in the back room, long before the meeting ever took place. There are variations in the technique to fit special situations but, in general, the procedure outlined above takes place.

The natural question to ask here is: If the outcome was preordained before the meeting took place, why have the meeting? Herein lies the genius of this Delphi Technique.

It is imperative that the general public believe that this program is theirs! They thought it up! 

They took part in its development! Their input was recognized!

If people believe that the program is theirs, they will support it. If they get the slightest hint that the program is being imposed upon them, they will resist.

This very effective technique is being used, over and over and over, to change our form of government from the representative republic, intended by the Founding Fathers, into a “participatory democracy." Now, citizens chosen at large are manipulated into accepting preset outcomes while they believe that the input they provided produced the outcomes which are now theirs! The reality is that the final outcome was already determined long before any public meetings took place, determined by individuals unknown to the public.

Can you say “Conspiracy?”