TED talks = COINTELPRO / Gatekeeper

[christian]

I admit, I have seen some inspirational and genuinely positive presentations on TED, like Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest speech:

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But by now I have also seen a lot of evidence that points towards TED acting as a gatekeeper and counterintelligence operation.

Mike Adams recently published two articles, in one (TED talks now routinely censoring scientists who share ideas on consciousness (http://www.naturalnews.com/041931_TED_talks_censorship_consciousness.html)) he shows how TED will not accept speakers like Graham Hancock or Rupert Sheldrake because of their ideas on the nature of consciousness.

TED only accepts those speakers who argue that consciousness is nothing but chemical processes in the body. In an open letter by TED representatives (http://blog.tedx.com/post/37405280671/a-letter-to-the-tedx-community-on-tedx-and-bad-science) they particularly mention the "fusion of science and spirituality" as a red flag topic.

In his other article (TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing (http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html)) Mike Adams points out how TED virtually endorses GMO's and thereby indirectly the companies and "science" associated with them.

Meanwhile TED allowed Bill Gates to give a presentation in which he openly said, "The world today has 6.8 billion people, that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."

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Bill Gates is also involved in the development of genetically engineered mosquitoes that would forcibly vaccinate people. I guess that would be cool with TED as well, after all in the aforementioned letter the TED representatives also wrote, "Andrew Wakefield’s attempt to link autism and vaccines was exposed as a hoax last year. But while his work was being investigated, millions of children went without vaccines, and many contracted deadly illnesses as a result. [...] If you hear anything that sounds remotely like, ‘Vaccines are related to autism,’ — RUN AWAY."

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Here is a video from the Joe Rogan Experience where Eddie Huang gives interesting insights on what's going on behind the scenes of TED on an interpersonal level. Essentially he says it's like a cult, bossing people around and forcing them to conform.

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[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

thank you a million times for confronting these EVIL, lying, paper-pushing thugs who use the law and media as weapons against innocent people.

the seattle times mentioned not too many years back that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pays them and many other media outlets OFF to parrot corporate propaganda.

there is hardly a single safe place to speak out against such people.

it goes all the way back to the Revolutionary war and farther, the corruption in the gates family.
Horatio L Gates ruined the careers of at least two contemporary American generals, including Benedict Arnold (who was a very brave man in fact) and also General Montgomery, who was sent to his death at the storming of Quebec, an action gates was too cowardly by far to attempt himself...

and he tried to steal the Montgomery widow, but she refused his crawling, lying ass!!

it's hard to believe that corruption runs that deep, but in the USA it certainly does.

the people must educate themselves to the dangers of trusting corporations and investors, and KNOWN eugenics supporters.

[donk]

Nice post christian, I started this thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?57333-Graham-Hancock-s-TED-talk-banned...&p=663387&highlight=banned+graham+hancock#post663387) awhile ago, it has Graham Hancock talking about how his talk got banned...which Rogan doesn't clearly mention ever, he just talks about his TED talk as a good one as if it is still available through TED...

Granny has a great post summarizing pretty much what Rogan's interviewee is saying:


I just read the info for TED membership. It's minimum fee is $6000 per year. Like private country clubs, it seems to use money as a minimum requirement for a sense of exclusivity. Then it evaluates applicants based on their professional qualifications and appeals to what use to be called social climbers.

I also remember reading about goodie bags given to conference attendees. They were filled with expensive gifts of leading edge products donated by companies wanting to expand into an elitist, early adopter marketplace. This marketing ploy seems remarkably like the goodie bags given to Hollywood stars to gain status for their products.

At a less rarified social level, TED reminds me of local fund raising auctions. Local mover and shakers bid on vacation trips, et al and get charity income tax deductions for buying stuff at less than the retail prices that commoners must pay. Same with going to "good" colleges and joining prestigious fraternities and sororities. Many people get sucked in to gain status and fit in rather than so that one can make positive contributions with like minded folks to help humankind.

I have enjoyed many of the TED talks as intellectually stimulating but have always rejected such old guard orientation.

[Redstar Kachina]

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[AutumnW]

I wonder if they have an agenda or if they just have a bias. I know a few people who have very little sense or interest in higher consciousness but are very interested in science. Maybe the TedTalks crew are the same? They may not like to talk about what they can't measure either, figuring the talks could start by showcasing Rupert Sheldrake and end up providing a stage for Richard Hoagland.

It is annoying though, isn't it?

[onawah]

TEDx talks align with Monsanto, no talks allowed on GMOs or healing foods
I posted this yesterday on Team GMO - Heal the seeds! at:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?62636-Team-GMO-Heal-the-seeds-&p=732610#post732610

TEDx talks align with Monsanto, no talks allowed on GMOs or healing foods
http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TE...ience_GMO.html
This is a LONG article, so I'm only copying the first part here, but it's all worth reading :
Quote (NaturalNews) Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.

This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012. Click here to view the letter.

In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes."

The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.

The TED organization, incredibly, believes that food cannot be medicine and does not contain medicine. Perhaps someone should educate TED about resveratrol, curcumin, phycocyanins, polyphenols and ten thousand other chemicals created by plants that have medicinal functions in the human body. To deny this is to nearly admit you believe the Earth is flat and that the sun and stars revolve around our planet. It is a sure sign of a feeble mind that cannot grasp the very simple and readily evident idea that the human body evolved in an environment full of plants with beneficial physiological effects, including many medicinal effects.

Maybe someone should remind TED that nearly 25% of all prescription medicines are in some way derived from plants, including statin drugs. Drug companies expend enormous resources searching the world's botanical treasures for amazing molecules that they can pirate from nature and alter in some way to make them patentable as a drug. Even the World Resources Institute readily admits this, while also reminding us that 80 percent of the world population still relies largely on plant-based medicine.

TED apparently thinks 80 percent of the world population is purely delusional, because obviously, as TED insists, real medicine can only come from pharmacological factories spewing out deadly chemicals, right?

TED falls in line with Monsanto: no talks that question GMOs will be allowed
It's a sure sign that you've jumped into a circle of dogma when the very act of asking intelligent questions is no longer allowed. Any speakers who might ask questions about genetically engineered foods are strictly forbidden by TED. This makes TED a source of pseudoscience because it censors and silences any dissenting views that don't align with Monsanto and the Frankenfoods biotech industry.

The TEDx letter mentioned above actually claims that anyone who questions the wisdom of genetically engineering food crops grown in open fields is a quack or a hoaxer.

Read the letter yourself. It reads as if it were written by someone with the intellectual capacity of an 8th grader -- someone who is so naive that they still haven't caught on to the fact that corporations routinely lie to the world by hijacking science to push their agenda of profit and domination. And it makes you wonder just how stupid TED thinks the public really is on the subject of GMOs. Even though 90% of the public believes GMOs should be labeled on foods, TED thinks anyone who dares talk about GMOs is spewing "pseudoscience."

Does TED also think that spraying the world with glyphosate is a boon to mankind? Does TED even know what glyphosate is and how glyphosate causes cancer at concentrations of parts per billion?

TED's letter filled with false information
The TEDx letter attacking "pseudoscience" is, itself, filled with factually false information. The letter says, "Andrew Wakefield's attempt to link autism and vaccines was exposed as a hoax last year."

That statement is blatantly false. For starters, Dr. Wakefield never conducted any studies whatsoever that linked autism and vaccines. That is a complete fabrication / delusion invented by the intellectually dishonest critics of Dr. Wakefield. TEDx obviously believes that if a lie is repeated often enough among critics of real science, that lie become a "truth."

Secondly, the actual hoax is on the medical journals and critics of Dr. Wakefield who were caught deliberately lying about his research and inventing wildly false claims in order to try to discredit him. They are currently being sued over their false allegations, by the way, and as the facts of this lawsuit come out, Dr. Wakefield will be completely vindicated.

For the real evidence that TED doesn't want you to see on Dr. Wakefield, check out these articles:

BMJ admits that fraud claim against Dr. Andrew Wakefield has no basis in fact

Documents emerge proving Dr Andrew Wakefield innocent; BMJ and Brian Deer caught misrepresenting the facts

Dr Wakefield demands retraction from BMJ after documents prove innocence from allegations of vaccine autism data fraud

Other areas of investigation banned by TED
It turns out that TED isn't only a proponent of GMOs, vaccines and whatever corporate-sponsored status quo science is currently being spouted -- it's also wholly aligned against a wide range of topics it considers "pseudoscience."

These so-called "pseudoscience" topics include:

• Consciousness, free will and the non-material "mind"

• "The fusion of science and spirituality" -- as if higher spiritual awareness is somehow not a valid pathway for the discovery of truth.

• Nearly all neuroscience.

• The placebo effect, something that has been experimentally proven to exist through tens of thousands of clinical trials.

• Any and all "healing," including Reiki or hands-on healing, healing touch, etc.

Yep, according to TED, these are all pure hokum and bunk. There is no placebo effect, they insist, even though it has been experimentally proven to be the strongest across-the-board form of medicine available today. The reason they cannot acknowledge the existence of the placebo effect is because it is contingent upon the interaction between the body and the mind. Because TEDx and its cabal of closed-minded junk scientists cannot admit to the existence of a non-material mind, they also cannot admit to the existence of the placebo effect even though their own experiments prove its existence beyond any rational doubt.

In fact, the placebo effect is so widely documented that in order to discard it, you would have to throw out all randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies altogether. Is TED saying that all such studies are bunk because, taken as a whole, they show the placebo effect to be statistically significant in its effectiveness?

See, this is how TED destroys its own argument (and credibility). If the placebo effect doesn't exist, then virtually all modern clinical trials must be deemed invalid, and that means TED doesn't believe in any real science at all.

Much more at: http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TE...ience_GMO.html

[AutumnW]

Onawah, What would be interesting would be starting a TedTalks like format that addresses all the issues that TTalks won't. The Un-Ted talks. Has a nice zombie ring to it, doesn't it? We are the Un-ted!;)

[onawah]

I think we already are! :thumb:

[christian]

The latest TED talk: Government - investor, risk-taker, innovator

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[RMorgan]

Honestly, I never really trusted TED. I can't quite explain why, but I never did.

I think that maybe it's because I know how easy it is to seduce people by making any sort of agenda look pretty, peaceful, ideological and promisingly hopeful.

Those guys, the usual TED fans (I call them tech-hippies, or hippies 2.0) have a lot of faith in technology and it always seemed to me that somehow they're trying to make a religion out of it...The technology religion, you know, trying to show how beautiful technology is, and how salvation could be achieved through the internet...

Anyway, in my opinion, the only thing they are really worshiping is money, because most of TED's lectures are about startup companies which ended up, or will end up, making tons of money by inventing something cool an innovative that apparently will bring positive changes to the world, but after a deeper analysis, these apparent advantages always end up showing what they're all about, which most of the times is just making money.

I don't know man...I have a few good friends who are real TED's fans and I always engage in long discussions with them...I've been invited to watch TED lectures a bunch of times, but never really felt like it was worth it.

Just my two cents, anyway.

Raf.

[TargeT]

The latest TED talk: Government - investor, risk-taker, innovator

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Nail in the coffin right there...

BUT DONT WORRY! Russel Brand (Another mass media offering) will lead us to revolution..............:tsk:

[christian]

In his other article (TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing (http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html)) Mike Adams points out how TED virtually endorses GMO's and thereby indirectly the companies and "science" associated with them.

Just found this anti-Monsanto TED talk:

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[TargeT]

In his other article (TED aligns with Monsanto, halting any talks about GMOs, 'food as medicine' or natural healing (http://www.naturalnews.com/042112_TED_conferences_pseudoscience_GMO.html)) Mike Adams points out how TED virtually endorses GMO's and thereby indirectly the companies and "science" associated with them.

Just found this anti-Monsanto TED talk:

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does TEDx count?

I don't think so personally, TEDx are pretty far separated from the "TED" machine.

TEDx is where G. Handcock did his piece on the war on consciousness (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0c5nIvJH7w) (then later TED officals reviewed it and tried to pull it)