there can be many ways to address this subject but the author here gets to the heart of it;

The 3 Trigger Terms Being Used to Stop Critical Thinking

August 16, 2018

Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer
Waking Times
It’s a strange world of newspeak we live in. What was once a society devoted to logic and progress is now being herded in echo chambers of thought control and anti-critical thinking. Without the ability to examine an issue impartially and completely there is little hope of maintaining liberty and freedom, as history repeatedly demonstrated.
Today, we find that thinking is a diminishing art, and in its place, sound bites and stop-thought terms are used to put the brakes on the mind. These terms are widely used as signals to prevent minds from looking too deeply at a topic or issue.

“Thinking critically means making reasoned judgments that are logical and well thought out. It is a way of thinking in which one doesn’t simply accept all arguments and conclusions to which one is exposed without questioning the arguments and conclusions. It requires curiosity, skepticism and humility. People who use critical thinking are the ones who say things such as, “How do you know that?” “Is this conclusion based on evidence or gut feelings?” and “Are there alternative possibilities when given new pieces of information?””  [Source]

The three terms most widely used today to this avail are detailed below.


https://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/08/16/the-3-trigger-terms-being-used-to-stop-critical-thinking/

 the writer herein shows us many box canyons in which we've been lost;

Trump clearly recognizes something few of his supporters do, that special interest groups, working with “stink tanks” and psych war experts, fabricate conspiracy theories and re-engineer existing ones, typically for profit or political gain.
He just doesn’t know which is what.  He is continually duped.
Our sources tell us that President Donald Trump has long been a follower of Professor Kevin MacDonald and his Codoh.com group.  MacDonald, more or less claims that the holocaust, as told by the MSM and Hollywood is fake and that there were hundreds of thousands of deaths in work camps, none by gas.
No one doubts Nazi’s executed Jews, Russians and others.  Their policies were barbaric and insane but MacDonald, and we are told Trump himself, believe that Israel and those behind Israel, and now behind Trump himself, perhaps blackmailing Trump using Jeffrey Epstein, simply made it all up, that the holocaust is fake.
It’s MacDonald, and his researchers, who have faced smears and prison, men like historian David Irving and Ernst Zundel, who have made what they say is a “slam dunk” case that the two Jewish holocausts, one they claim happened during World War I, killing 6 million Jews, and a second during World War II, also killing 6 million Jews, in fact never happened.
The math used, which we believe brought Donald onboard, is simple.  There were 4.5 million Jews in Europe in 1940, all of Europe including Russia.  As a German, I am obligated by threat of imprisonment to state that 6 million were gassed and, thus, I state with absolute moral certainty that 6 million of the 4.5 million were gassed.


https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/08/17/intel-drop-trump-holocaust-never-happened-its-a-fake/

the writer herein shows how the empire is on its way to defeat;

After 17 bloody years, the longest war in US history continues without relent or purpose in Afghanistan.
There, a valiant, fiercely-independent people, the Pashtun (Pathan) mountain tribes, have battled the full might of the US Empire to a stalemate that has so far cost American taxpayers $4 trillion, and 2,371 dead and 20,320 wounded soldiers.  No one knows how many Afghans have died. The number is kept secret.
Pashtun tribesmen in the Taliban alliance and their allies are fighting to oust all foreign troops from Afghanistan and evict the western-imposed and backed puppet regime in Kabul that pretends to be the nation’s legitimate government.  Withdraw foreign troops and the Kabul regime would last for only days.
The whole thing smells of the Vietnam War.  Lessons so painfully learned by America in that conflict have been completely forgotten and the same mistakes repeated.  The lies and happy talk from politicians, generals and media continue apace.
This week, Taliban forces occupied the important strategic city of Ghazni on the road from Peshawar to Kabul.  It took three days and massive air attacks by US B-1 heavy bombers, Apache helicopter gun ships, A-10 ground attack aircraft, and massed warplanes from US bases in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar and the 5th US Fleet to finally drive back the Taliban assault.  Taliban also overran key military targets in Kabul and the countryside, killing hundreds of government troops in a sort of Afghan Tet offensive.


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/eric-margolis/afghanistan-graveyard-of-empires/

 pcr says, in this article, what many of us have been saying for years, and now its getting to the point where worldwide discovery is accelerating and the results are in our face. we haven't much time left in this battle;


Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource exhaustion are not included in Gross Domestic Product, we do not know whether an increase in GDP is a gain or a loss.
External costs are huge and growing larger. Historically, manufacturing and industrial corporations, corporate farming, city sewer systems, and other culprits have passed the costs of their activities onto the environment and third parties. Recently, there has been a spate of reports with many centering on Monsanto’s Roundup, whose principle ingredient, glyphosate, is believed to be a carcinogen.
A public health organization, the Environmental Working Group, recently reported that its tests found glyphosate in all but 2 of 45 children’s breakfast foods including granola, oats and snack bars made by Quaker, Kellogg and General Mills. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/16/weedkiller-cereal-monsanto-roundup-childrens-food
In Brazil tests have discovered that 83% of mothers’ breast milk contains glyphosate. https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Poisonous-Agrotoxin-Found-Over-80-of-Breast-Milk-Samples-in-Urucui-20180809-0008.html
The Munich Environmental Institute reported that 14 of the most widely selling German beers contain glyphosate. https://sustainablepulse.com/2016/02/25/german-beer-industry-in-shock-over-probable-carcinogen-glyphosate-contamination/#.W3XKtC-ZOGQ


https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/08/17/is-capitalism-killing-us/

be sure to open the link as the full article is spot on, and i couldn't think of a way to say it better;


The faction that used to be the Democratic party can be described with some precision these days as a three-headed monster driving the nation toward danger, darkness, and incoherence. Anyone interested in defending what remains of the sane center of American politics take heed:
The first head is the one infected with the toxic shock of losing the 2016 election. The illness took hold during the campaign that year when the bureaucracy under President Obama sent its lymphocytes and microphages in the “intel community” — especially the leadership of the FBI — to attack the perceived disease that the election of Donald Trump represented. The “doctors” of this Deep State diagnosed the condition as “Russian collusion.” An overdue second opinion by doctors outside the Deep State adduced later that the malady was actually an auto-immune disease.
The agents actually threatening the health of the state came from the intel community itself: Mr. Brennan, Mr. Clapper, Mr. Comey, Mr. Strzok, Mr. McCabe, Mr. Ohr, Ms. Yates. Ms. Page, et. al. who colluded with pathogens in the DNC, the Hillary campaign, and the British intel service to chew up and spit out Mr. Trump as expeditiously as possible. With the disease now revealed by hard evidence, the chief surgeon called into the case, Robert Mueller, is left looking ridiculous — and perhaps subject to malpractice charges — for trying to remove an appendix-like organ called the Manifort from the body politic instead of attending to the cancerous mess all around him. Meanwhile, the Deep State can’t stop running its mouth — The New York Times, CNN, WashPo, et al — in an evermore hysterical reaction to the truth of the matter: the Deep State itself colluded with Russia (and perhaps hates itself for it, a sure recipe for mental illness).



http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-three-headed-monster/

we swagger around swinging at everyone who doesn't get in line, as we tell them to. this post contains some thing i've been working on for a while in bits and pieces. there is no link beyond the url for this blog;

What happened to countries and leaders that trusted American promises and disarmed; Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein disarmed, and were brutally murdered. Russia disarmed in 1991 and thereafter was treated poorly in many ways. America abandoned treaties made in the Soviet days without comment. Non-nuclear North Korea will be bombed. There was an agreement for the nuclear disarmament of North Korea, and the Empire reneged on it. America broke the agreement for the denuclearization of Iran.

The Soviet Union collapsed because it was a dishonest system that ran on pretense and coercion. Apparently, ‘our’ spies completely missed the signs that political collapse was underway. America will collapse for the same reasons.

Hundreds of insiders with top secret clearance knew about the contents of the Pentagon Papers, and therefore knew the Vietnam War was an accumulation of official lies designed to protect powerful self-serving elites.  Only one of the hundreds with access to the truth had the courage to risk his career and liberty to release the truth to the American public: Daniel Ellsberg.

We don’t acknowledge that America is an empire; it’s impossible to realize a relationship if you’re not aware you are in one. ‘Our’ politicians refuse to consider the existence of the world or allow any opinion on the 60% of the budget that goes to militarism.

American exceptionalism defines itself as special among lesser nations, and demands that all Americans believe they are born superior to others, a concept of goodness that requires the existence of evil for its fuel. How could an American understand foreign people when, perhaps unconsciously, he didn’t recognize them as equally human? This kind of nationalism is beyond racism, prejudice, and ignorance.

An empire decides it’s in charge and that’s how we walk around the world. What commitment has America kept or what law have we observed?

In an atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia, like the one we’re living in at the moment, the authorities’ stories don’t have to make sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their primary purpose isn’t to mislead, but to define an ideological territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion to which “normal” people are expected to conform. Beyond the boundaries of that territory lies the outer darkness of “abnormality” and “extremism,” which no “normal” person wants anything to do with. To avoid being ‘different’, people will conform to the most absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly imagine. The global ruling classes know this, which is why they don’t care if you disprove their tales on Twitter or some “disreputable” website they’ve rendered virtually invisible anyway. They’re not debating facts or truth; they’re marking the boundaries of “normal” territory, and herding frightened ‘consumers’ into it.

The sinister Putin-Nazi plot has something to do with killing Jews and gassing babies; Would you like to be associated with people like that; Assad-loving, Putin-supporting Nazis? No? Then stop and think very carefully before sharing, “liking,” or commenting publically. It’s for the children, we’re told.

We have to use force because we’re America, the indispensable nation. We see further than other countries into the future. So if some country doesn’t agree with the “indispensable” opinion of officials in Washington, they should prepare at least to get sanctioned, if not bombed, occupied, targeted by terrorists, or set up for a “color revolution” regime change, with the media cheering it on, Consequently the succession of wars of aggression in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, plus regime change operations in many, many other places. After all, extremism is no vice, we’re told, in eliminating opposition to the inexorable forward march of “liberal democracy” against its ignorant opponents: nationalists, fascists, racists, anti-Semites, Marxists, protectionists,  conspiracy-mongers, fringe websites that spread “fake news.

My countrymen, by and large, are perfectly willing to convict and sentence the Palestinians or Russians or anybody, to certain destruction based on hearsay. ‘Consumers’ aren’t even willing to take the time to discern facts anymore. The revolution was begun for situations much less difficult that exist in today’s America. Taxation as a symptom of conditions then and now doesn’t begin to match as the taxes blamed on the start of the revolution were much less than today’s levels. The idea that representation would have solved the problem ignores reality in today’s America where that alleged representation does nothing positive for ‘consumers’.

The only “common sense gun control” that its advocates are eventually going to agree on is to take your guns away because that’s what they did in Europe. America’s revolution may have begun over Britain’s interest in gun control. What’s even more interesting is that modern-day gun control advocates agree with this analysis. One of their more regular responses is that “the Bill of Rights was written at a very different time,” admitting that it had its legitimacy then. If it had legitimacy because King George III could decide to overthrow the revolutionaries in an attempt to regain his territory and because the threat of new government becoming tyrannical was real, then what has changed? Is government unable to become tyrannical? The Second Amendment might be old, but the concerns it expressed are just as accurate today as they were in the 18th century.

People with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully. The world, including the Empire, is run by criminals. No government is doing, or will do, the right thing. They aren’t your friend. You can’t petition criminals. You’re being herded into a slot you won’t find a way to escape. The day cash is replaced by digital money is the day you’re fully a slave of their ‘new world order’. Most of you can’t even remember phone numbers, let alone history. Not long from now you will be fully controlled without even noticing it, until you step outside of your given boundary. You’ve given up your personal responsibility to others with the wish they’d do what you would, and now ‘they’ have taken that responsibility and your freedom along with it. This is the ‘new world order’ manifest, and the police protect, but aren’t the points of the spear creating this. This is because the world is run by criminals, and you tolerate this by ignoring it. You focus on trees and forget the forest.

writer is former cia and sums up the current empire's tactics fully at the link;

 

There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had legitimate interests and accepted there was a place for diplomacy to resolve issues short of armed conflict. The Bush Administration reluctance to broaden its engagement in the Middle East after it recognized that it had blundered with Iraq followed by Obama’s relaxation of tensions with Cuba and his negotiation of a nuclear agreement with Iran demonstrated that sanity sometimes prevailed in the West Wing.  
That willingness to be occasionally accommodating has changed dramatically, with the State Department under Mike Pompeo currently more prone to deliver threats than any suggestions that we all might try to get along. It would be reasonable enough to criticize such behavior because it is intrinsically wrong, but the truly frightening aspect of it would appear to be that it is based on the essentially neoconservative assumption that other countries will always back down when confronted with force majeure and that the use of violence as a tool in international relations is, ultimately, consequence free.
I am particularly disturbed with the consequence free part as it in turn is rooted in the belief that countries that have been threatened or even invaded have no collective memory of what occurred and will not respond vengefully when the situation changes. There have been a number of stunningly mindless acts of aggression over the past several weeks that are particularly troubling as they suggest that they will produce many more problems down the road than solutions.
The most recent is the new sanctioning of Russia over the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury England. For those not following developments, last week Washington abruptly and without any new evidence being presented, imposed additional trade sanctions on Russia in the belief that Moscow ordered and carried out the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia on March 4th. The report of the new sanctions was particularly surprising as Yulia Skripal has recently announced that she intends to return to her home in Russia, leading to the conclusion that even one of the alleged victims does not believe the narrative being promoted by the British and American governments.


https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-the-punitive/5650835