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How to control a herd of humans
Interesting how this article applies perfectly to the tactics commonly used by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela...New Scientist HITLER and Mussolini both had the ability to bend millions of people to their fascist will. Now evidence from psychology and neurology is emerging to explain how tactics like organised marching and propaganda can work to exert mass mind control.Scott Wiltermuth of Stanford University in California and colleagues have found that activities performed in unison, such as marching or dancing, increase loyalty to the group. "It makes us feel as though we're part of a larger entity, so we see the group's welfare as being as important as our own," he says... more »
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on 4 Feb, 2009
| Tags: fascism, hitler, hugo chávez, mind control, mussolini
US communists say their time has come
Fom AFP:US communists say their time has come19 hours agoNEW YORK (AFP) — A rare bird in the political world, the US Communist Party is feeling rather smug in these days of capitalist turmoil.At the party's New York headquarters on 23rd Street in Manhattan, regional party chairman Libero Della Piana, 36, laid out why he thinks Marxist-Leninism's time has finally come... more »
Send feedback » | Categories: Politics, Opinion, News, International | on 15 Oct, 2008
| Tags: 2008, barack obama, capitalism, communism, democrat, elections, john mccain, republican, united states, wall street
The List: Murder Capitals of the World
From Foreign Policy Posted September 2008Reliable global crime statistics are hard to come by, but here are five cities that stand in a class all their own when it comes to brutal, homicidal violence.Caracas, VenezuelaPopulation: 3.2 millionMurder rate: 130 per 100,000 residents (official)What’s happening: The capital of Chávez country, Caracas has become far more dangerous in recent years than any South American city, even beating out the once notorious Bogotá. What’s worse, the city’s official homicide statistics likely fall short of the mark because they omit prison-related murders as well as deaths that the state never gets around to properly “categorizing.” The numbers also don’t count those who died while “resisting arrest,” suggesting that Caracas’s cops—already known for their brutality against student protesters—might be cooking the books... more »
Send feedback » | Categories: Politics, Venezuela, News, International, Crime | on 8 Oct, 2008
| Tags: cities, crime, dangerous cities, murder, news, rusia, statistics, venezuela, world
Viendo los puentes dinamitados por el ejército venezolano, se me ocurre que el haberlos destruido era una opción válida para Venezuela y Colombia. Cualquier país quiere controlar sus accesos y si estos puentes no están controlados por la inmigración de ninguno