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  Sample reference line and three comparison lines in Solomon Asch Experiment The November 1955 issue of Scientific American magazine* announced the most consequential discovery ever made about the workings of the human mind. One quarter of all people are immune to the distorting effect of social pressure on their judgment. The remaining three-quarters will lie through their teeth about so simple a black-and-white fact as the length of a line--simply because a small but apparently unanimous group persists in making the same error. No persuasion or arguments were offered during the experiment; all but one of the participants were instructed to lie about the relative lengths of lines on paper with a perfectly straight face.  This discovery of inborn complaisance as a fact of human nature has ominous implications for the democratic process--the process that determines the kind of laws that are passed. Long before the Asch experiment, mystical zealots of every religion tortured...

 This just in... Germany's DW news reported Putin's not-really-communist government got its courts to deny ballot access to the YABLOKO peace party. ( link ) Sound familiar? Fans of the pre-Libertarian Buffalo Party and the Ann Arbor Human Rights Party will doubtless recognize the clueless, meandering style of voters dissatisfied with the entrenched violent looter Kleptocacy--yet unable to even imagine an alternative offering voters something worth voting FOR! ( link ) Here is the YABLOKO platform in English.( link ) Okay, I get that it reeks of Artificial Interpreter translation, but it's better than no opposition whatsoever , however insincere, to the not-really-Soviet totalitarians currently standing in for the Czar, Bolshevism, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev et alii all the way down to Gorby and Yeltsin...  So, why not translate the 1972 Libertarian Party platform into Russian and Ukrainian? I have it in English and Portuguese, quickly adaptable to Dutch, German, Yiddish, ...

  Mystical fanaticism and racial collectivist outrage has caused the USA to blank out Supply & Demand with violent laws and wishful thinking. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,  21JAN1929 : LEAGUE OF NATIONS 6 th  Meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee , now chaperoned by the Permanent Central Opium Board -- USA dry snoops and foreign  collaborati onists. PM 7 th Meeting : More reports from governments p45. Sato of Japan feigns ignorance of native Indian coca plantations or Nipponese exports thereto. Meanwhile, former financier Sir John Campbell of India also ignores native Indian coca plantations. He then asserted that native State opium could not possibly make it across British India to seaports, and from thence on to China. Nevermind India's land borders with China and Burma, complete with handy river routes leading east to Nanking & Shanghai . At this point Italian Senator Cavazzoni says AHA! then demands the record reflect that the Americans were right after all a...

  Pittsburgh restaurant with that month's special illustrates the value of $1.25 in gold dollars (no beer or wine included) Opium Advisory Committee Meeting notes for 21JAN1929 stretched on and on, largely from references to 1927 reports and tables, but also from maneuvering rival nation members into the path of United States Opium Section spies in the attending the meeting. Both The Netherlands and Japan had for years been reducing trade and production of addictive opium and switching to non-habituating coca shrubs and paste. No matter. U.S. operatives were as fanatical about that as about anything else liable to compete with Luckies, Chesterfields, Old Golds--or White Power, prayer and abstinence. Already the Democratic platform demanded additional prohibition, and sub chasers were added to the Coast Guard fleet even before two foreign submarines were photographed in the Hudson River.( link ) Additional economic pressure goes back to the year 1925, when the American and Chinese...