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This is the book that was featured in last year's 60 Minutes segment "The Great Brain Robbery," which became the most-watched investigative episode in the show's history. This work has been described by the US Department of Justice as "the best work done on the Chinese national business model." Now that Congress and the White House are finally responding effectively to the China threat, we thought all of our members should have timely access to this same information. China having run a trade-war attack against virtually all of its trading partners since 2003, it seemed the right moment to blunt its propaganda claims that its victims were starting a trade war, by making a few first and feeble responses to this onslaught. For these reasons and others, we're pleased to announce a one-week price reduction for SNS members only, of the "Theft Nation" Cabinet-level briefing book, from $4,995 to $195. We hope you all get a chance to read it, and then share what you learn with others. To claim your copy of "Theft Nation now," go to: https://store.stratnews.com/shop/theft-nation/
The Technology of Identity: Face vs. Freedom Certain tribes of indigenous Native Americans used to practice what they called "face reading." They believed, perhaps correctly, that a person's face revealed all manner of information about his or her life, character traits, soul. Today, scientists such as UW professor emeritus of Psychology John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman, co-founders of the Gottman Institute, have made a career from looking carefully at faces, using advanced camera and video techniques. This has been so successful that the couple has been able to determine, with a 90%+ success rate, whether a couple will still be together in five years, just by watching on camera what are called micro-muscles in their faces, for half an hour. (Admittedly, it would take longer for others not as well-trained.) The Central Intelligence Agency, always interested in getting the truth from subjects, appears to have figured out long ago that polygraph tests are imperfect, and in fact can be fooled by accomplished subjects. For that reason, the Agency has perfected techniques now taught to its agents, looking for micro-muscular, involuntary reactions in the faces of others, as the most accurate path for seeking out truth vs. deception. These and other studies have shown that one can learn much more than just how to detect truth from lies, and it's no surprise that study of subtle changes in the face transmit all manner of information about our intents, feelings, apprehensions, emotional states, and many other "tells" about our otherwise-secret thoughts. |
For SNS members wishing to know as much as (or often, much more than) global leaders know about China's national economic business model and why it must be opposed by free nations, we're offering a "flash sale" this week of the same text we've been using to brief global leaders on this subject.