Confidence Trick
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed.
Researchers have defined confidence tricks as “a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct […] intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial”, as they “benefit con operators (‘con men’) at the expense of their victims (the ‘marks’)”.
“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
― Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy served on the Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979) presidential campaign in 1968 and the successful reelection campaign of Washington governor Dan Evans. Bundy was appointed to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee, and later became an assistant to Ross Davis, the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.
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(Con Artist Ted Bundy - career politician, serial rapist, and serial killer)
THE DATA
TECHNOLOGY
Web-addicted individuals have a 65 percent higher rate of psychiatric morbidity.
Internet addicts have a 47% higher rate of suicidal thoughts within a week, a 23 percent higher rate of lifetime suicide attempts, and a 5 percent higher rate of suicides attempt within a year.
Teenagers who spend 5 hours a day on electronic devices are 71% more likely to have suicide risk factors than those with one-hour use. And It was the time spent on the device, not the content, that mattered most.
In 2002, just four years after the literal forest of “wireless communication” infrastructure sprang up virtually overnight in all the nations, neurosurgeon and researcher Dr. Leif Salford exposed over 1600 experimental animals to low level microwave radiation. His results were consistent and worrisome: microwave radiation caused the blood-brain barrier to leak.
In May 2016, Science Daily said “Leaky blood-brain barrier linked to Alzheimer’s disease.”
If Alzheimer’s disease is caused by a leaky blood brain barrier, and microwave radiation causes the blood brain barrier to leak, then the purportedly-harmless microwave radiation causes Alzheimer’s.
From 2020 to 2021, the percentage of the public who said that the technology industry was less trustworthy than average increased by 19%, from 27% to 32%.
From 2020 to 2021, Technology dropped from the most trusted sector in the Public Affairs Council’s annual survey to ninth place.
In June 2021, trust in technology was at an all-time low in the U.S. ad 17 other countries, including China, South Africa, the U.K. and Germany.
COVID, WHOSE NAME MEANS 'CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, DECEPTION’
In 2017, the Smithsonian Magazine widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic***?***”
In 2018, the AMA introduced three new CPT codes to incentivize the adoption of Remote Patient Monitoring, or RPM.
In February 2020, National Taiwan University professor Fang Chi-Tai said that the Wuhan coronavirus was likely man-made, that COVID-19 is 96 percent similar to the bat virus RaTG13, which is known to be housed at the Wuhan lab. Fang said that a French team investigating COVID-19 had found that the key difference between RaTG13 and COVID-19 was that the latter has four additional amino acids not found in any other coronaviruses. Fang said that these four amino acids make the disease easier to transmit.
In February 2020, Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was arrested by Federal Agents, along with two Chinese “Students” working as research assistants, one of whom was actually a lieutenant in the Chinese Army, the other captured at Logan Airport as he tried to catch a flight to China – smuggling 21 vials of “Sensitive Biological Samples” according to the FBI.
He was charged with lying to the Department of Defense about secret monthly payments of $50,000.00 paid by China and receipt of millions more to help set up the chemical/biological “Research” laboratory in Wuhan, China.
From May 2020 to October 2020, complete trust in the CDC decreased by 8%, from 76% to 70%.
In April 2022, 54% of the worlds’ populace distrusted CEO’s of healthcare companies.
THE CON ARTISTS
From May 2020 to 2021, the Chinese public’s trust in their government decreased by 20%, from 90% to 72%. Edelman.com called it an 18% decrease.
I have exposed the duplicity of Edelman.com by using what was known in the old-days as “fact checking”.
From May 2020 to 2021, the U.S. public’s trust in their government decreased by 9%, from 53% to 48%. Edelman.com called it a 5% decrease.
I have exposed the duplicity of Edelman.com by using what was known in the old-days as “fact checking”.
In 2021, Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Americans believed elected officials in Washington, D.C., have low honesty and ethical standards.
In April 2022, 59% of the world’s populace distrusted journalists.
In April 2022, 54% of the world’s populace distrusted government leaders.
Remember, when cons collapse, they do so in a rush, like a house of cards.
THE ARTICLES
Confidence Trick
A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed.
Researchers have defined confidence tricks as “a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct […] intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial”, as they “benefit con operators (‘con men’) at the expense of their victims (the ‘marks’)”.
In June 2021, Forbes said “Trust In Tech Industry Is At All-Time Low: Four Ways To Change That”.
Where author Forbes Councils Member Allison Barr went on to say:
"Just last year, tech was the most trusted sector in the U.S. Now it sits in ninth place. Trust in tech also reached all-time lows in 17 other countries, including China, South Africa, the U.K. and Germany.
In October 2021, protocol.com’s Aisha Counts said “Trust in the tech sector hit an all-time low this year, according to a new study by Public Affairs Council and Morning Consult. Once the most trusted sector in the survey, tech now ranks among the least trusted, with 32% of respondents considering it less trustworthy than other sectors. Only the pharmaceutical industry, health insurance and energy are considered less trustworthy than tech.”
In April 2022, fiercepharma.com said “Global trust in pharma CEOs in the doldrums when it comes to ‘telling the truth about health’.”
What author Ben Adamssaid “telling the truth about health” which is Mil-speak for "telling the truth about the barely-covert international release of a Chinese bat virus with four amino acids for improved transmissibility to humans.
In the report, Edelman found that just 46% of those surveyed trusted CEOs of healthcare companies “to tell the truth about health issues and how best to protect the health of the public.” This was on par with government leaders, also 46%, with my profession coming off the worse: Only 41% trust journalists.
Jeff Miller, Honolulu, HI, April 29, 2022
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