“There is a misconception that only “stupid” people get duped. Not true at all! There are methods to dupe highly intelligent people. There are methods to dupe the ones with pure hearts (“prey naivete“). There are methods to dupe people who are vain or insecure.” So wrote Tessa Lena, who is a musician, author, and pundit who ‘fights robots.’ Per her website’s bio, “She is a classically trained pianist and singer” who lives in New York, and has spent time in places around the world, including Chicago, Moscow, and China. Her album and blog entitled “Tessa Fights Robots” is per the author about being “human in the world of technology, big data, and machine-like people.” Some of her thoughts are arguably over-the top and sharing these thoughts by Lena should not be construed as a blanket endorsement of her thinking or work. But from time to time, MHProNews has presented Lena’s thoughts on issues that appear to have relevance for Americans in general and/or manufactured housing professionals. Lena says in part below that there are numbers of examples of “predators” throughout history who are about “tricking people into acting against their own self-interests.” In our view, this column below by Lena falls into that category of insights worth sharing with manufactured housing industry pros, advocates, and others.

This writer freely admits that there have been times when I’ve been ‘fooled,’ despite years of education, awards, and recognition, plus a lifetime of experiences. Intelligent people can get ‘fooled,’ as Lena contends. Her list below is insightful. There is a need, which Lena says, to counter “dark-hearted liars.” Per Lena: “wicked ones are extremely crafty in their use of psychological tricks.” While she uses hyperbole in ways that this writer would eschew (e.g.: “…Who on Earth believes them!” Obviously, many do), those modest communications crutches don’t invalidate (separate the wheat from the chaff) the largely useful insights.

Part I of today’s report includes her thoughts on the “Bag of Tricks” that are deployed as a form of “Psychological Warfare.” She lists various methods used to manipulate people who are often intelligent people.

Part II is additional information with more MHProNews commentary and analysis in brief. Her post is per Mercola.com on 7.20.2023.

Part III is our signature Daily Business News on MHProNews manufactured housing connected stocks, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other macro-market and left-right headline news recaps.

As is often the case, the article aims to cause people to think and apply those thoughts to manufactured housing in general, or life more broadly.

Psychological Warfare: A Bag of Tricks

Analysis by Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• People have dealt with cold-blooded, ambitious predators and tricksters for as long as we have been around
• Predators look for weaknesses in people’s emotional “armor” — and attack where they see holes — whether it’s a lack of situational awareness, anxiety, pride, ideological addition, insecurity, fear, anger, or being attached to pain
• Noticing predators is good situational awareness but it’s important to not be scared
• There is no such thing as something for nothing, and some of the most effective things we can do to protect ourselves from psychological tricks aren’t fancy — but they require work. They are choices like practicing spiritual courage, staying even-headed and patient, letting go of ego, and praying for protection like children, from the heart

This story is about being stronger than any monster’s psychological tricks.

Introduction

In the medical freedom movement, we often discuss psychological trickery in the context of the technocrats and their attempt at the not-so-great reset — but of course, the need for good people to effectively counter dark-hearted liars is as old as the world. In the course of human history, there has been no lack of contenders for the role of super predators.

There has been no lack of dark-hearted, cold-blooded individuals seeking power over others though illegitimate means: taking what doesn’t belong to them, distorting reality (a.k.a. lying), turning people into zombies, tricking people into acting against their own self-interests, etc. We are not the first ones to deal with this kind of shameless scoundrels, and we probably won’t be the last ones!

Watching Out for Tricks Without Fear

Staying vigilant in a spiritually honest way is important because the wicked ones are extremely crafty in their use of psychological tricks. They look for weaknesses in people’s emotional “armor” in real time — and attack where they see holes — whether it’s a lack of situational awareness, ideological addiction, anxiety, pride, insecurity, fear, anger, or being blinded by pain.

And yes, today’s technological tools allow them to lie on an industrial scale — but the core methods are still the same!

“There is a misconception that only “stupid” people get duped. Not true at all! There are methods to dupe highly intelligent people. There are methods to dupe the ones with pure hearts (“prey naivete“). There are methods to dupe people who are vain or insecure.

There are methods to dupe the wounded and the angry. There are methods to dupe the poor, and methods to dupe the rich. Really, the moment we decide that we are some kind of intellectual geniuses or super successful achievers, we make ourselves vulnerable to tricks.”

Types of “Exploits”

The vain can be tricked into acting against their interests very effectively by either provoking them with insult and triggering a self-sabotaging response that costs them a chunk of their reputation — or by leading them on with a promise of a “statusy” reward. Very often, when we suddenly feel very insulted and want to just act hot-headed and let it all out, the desire to act hot-headed may not be coming from us. It very well could be various the tricksters at work, waving their metaphorical magic wand and giving people hot-headed thoughts. That is an important thing to check for any time hot blood flows to the head out of nowhere. Any time there is a sudden strong emotion compelling us to act up, we can take a pause, play the scene out in our mind, and see how we feel once done: let us say, we’ve said all what we wanted to say, out loud. What is the likely practical outcome? And are we positioned better now? And then, depending on the feeling, we can make a choice.

Those who have never learned to source their love and self-confidence from the inside have a strong need to be with the crowd — and so they get co-opted very easily into supporting a slew of manufactured “popular” opinions du jour. (I wonder if the word “popular” means anything if the people expressing those opinions are half-zombified?) I witnessed the “du jour” part with my own eyes after the fall of the USSR when many former militant atheist became militant church goers, while fully retaining the overall joyless gloom. And in the past three years, we all saw how frequently our fellow citizens with a special trust for the Holy TV have been changing their minds!

Those who are zoomed in on their feeling of being invisible in society are often asked by tricksters to achieve “visibility” by attacking the people whom they perceive as “inferior” — an initiative that is often accompanied by scapegoating and straight-out theft. That particular trick is the classic “divide and conquer” scam. See today’s “woke” / cancel culture, or the way the dejected and impoverished European peasantry were recruited by the ultra-rich of the day to “develop” the “new world” for them.

Those who are very pure and benevolent can be tricked on a case-by-case basis by well-spoken bad actors in sheep’s clothes, by pretending to care. As a rule, it is easy to see through the liars who promote the ideas that we don’t like. Fauci? Bill Gates? Who on Earth believes them! But the useful part of the exercise is learning, without fear or prejudice, to “sniff out” the ones insincerely saying “our” words. There is no formula for identifying the liars who say all the right things, and really no substitution for developing a good nose. On my end, I usually observe what the end point of their actions is, and whether they are trying to set people free or to breed slaves.

Those who are born into financial security and addicted to their social status are very easy to manipulate as they often don’t even know how to live a life outside of their high-income bubble — and are willing to go to great lengths (of betrayal) to preserve the status quo.

Those whose life is painful, can be tricked into “marrying” their pain and demanding a painful life for all.

As a general technique that applies to different psychological types, the liar might first “bond” with the targets, praise them, lift them up emotionally, make them feel good, establish common grounds — and then gradually, using the established trust, lead them south. Which is why whenever there is exuberant flattery, my ears perk up.

Spoiler Alert: Spiritual Clarity Is Work

My experience tells me that no amount of repetition of solemn theological terms and no amount of intellectual knowledge of psychological warfare will protect one from the tricks. This is not how it works. The protection happens in the actual spiritual domain, and it comes from the unglamorous, timeless, totally honest, and largely invisible, often non-verbal spiritual labor, done with love.

The spiritual grounding of this kind requires a willingness to let go of all dogma and all preconceived ideas — and a heartfelt desire to be in a joyful and subjective union with the higher powers — without any claims of domination over others and without putting any loveless words into God’s mouth. I believe that praying like a non-fancy child — as opposed to a self-important intellectual — is key.

A Story of a Pleasing Child

As I was thinking about how we can heal the problem of compliant adults, I thought of this poetic allegory as a way to explore where compliant adults come from. Here is the allegory:

Once upon a time, in a land far away, a child was born. The child had everything in his heart: good and bad, a potential for nurturing love, and a potential for debilitating fear. More than anything, our child — a new traveler in this world — was hungry for being accepted and understood.

Unfortunately, the adults around him were all too stressed, too busy surviving, and too beat down to see his soul. They lived in a place a that for a long time had been controlled by a mob, and they knew that in order to survive, one had to either “hustle strictly within the parameters,” or just keep one’s head down.

Did they love their boy? Oh, they loved him! He was their precious boy! They wanted him to survive in this tough world and be happy, hopefully much happier than they were. But it is hard for beat-down adults to recognize a child’s sovereign soul if they have never taken the opportunity to recognize their own.

And so the parents of our boy taught him early on — with confidence of the people who internalized abuse — that in our world, a child gets approval and validation only when he follows the rules of the mob (in their mind, simply “rules”).

They sprinkled their moral teachings with phrases like “tough life,” “discipline,” “order,” “being a good child.” With pride in their values, they instilled in him the rules of the mob and a habit to stick his neck out for the yoke.

They certainly thought they were being responsible parents, and they didn’t realize that they were acting as unwitting volunteer community managers for the mobsters. In fact, if somebody mentioned that possibility to them, they would be mighty insulted — and understandably so, given the good intention in their hearts and the difficulty of their lives. But none the less …

Meanwhile, the child’s soul craved nourishing love and validation by the people around him, validation of his presence on this Earth. He wanted an ongoing confirmation of the fact that he was “real” and that he was “good.” He was instinctively following all the things that got him soul-warming approval, like a plant that always turns its leaves toward the sunlight.

He didn’t know any fancy words but he knew that when he complied with the “rules,” he was getting a pleasant reaction, and when he — intentionally or unintentionally — did something “bad,” he experienced rejection by the people whose love he craved, and felt pain. He was just a child, after all!

Love or Letdown? Maybe Both?

Was our acceptance-seeking boy in a way let down by his adults? In a way, yes. They didn’t teach him that he was free, and they didn’t teach him the most important emotionally protective skill that adults can teach a child: sourcing love and acceptance from the inside. Was that letdown malicious on their part though? God, no. They were themselves misled! And they loved him, they wanted him to succeed in the “real world” as they knew it, and they meant well.

There we have it. Compliant adults are former good, acceptance-seeking kids who became adults in a nominal sense but who never learned to source love and confidence from the inside. Has anyone counted how many of them are in the world today? Billions, perhaps?

This story has many variations and many endings. Did our boy grow up in a bleak provincial town in a communist country, ruled by the Universal Bulldozer? In a resource-rich land invaded and destroyed by foreigners? In an affluent neighborhood somewhere in the “developed” world where the adults have chosen the path of being high-performing, half-sociopathic zombie drones?

And did our boy stay broken for many years to come — or was the pull of his soul so strong that he cried and screamed and protested the pain but none the less figured it out and found his soul?

The Difference Between a Pleasing Child and a Straight-up Adult

What does it take for a pleasing child to throw off the spiritual yoke and to start walking straight up? I can tell you what it took for me, and I suspect that something of the kind might have happened to many of us. In my own life, it was a series experiences of great suffering that forced me to divorce the pleasing mode, and it was an inner sense of love that made me happy when I made choices from the inside.

“I know conformism! As a kid in Moscow, I was an aspiring conformist. I was in need of love, and I was trying to earn it with obeying the rules and pleasing the adults. It was a lonely time. The adults were broken — but they had the power. Praise for performance was the only currency of love I knew.

Then, as a teenager, I rebelled against everything — which felt amazing — but it seems like my rebellion was making those around me sad. Out of guilt and fear, I tried obedience again … But then life showed me the face of the machine and put me through a very cruel experience that cleared up my head. After that, I couldn’t become compliant even if I wanted to, my thinking just didn’t bend that way.

So my theory is that when aspiring conformists — who look for love in any form — grow up without seeing the face of the machine, they remain compliant. The establishment rewards the act of betraying one’s inner child — and because it promotes self-betrayal through formal education, academics can become messenger viruses of spiritual defeat and blinding pride.”

Most transformations are gradual then sudden: things build up, then build up more, and then one day, the clarity shows up. In my case, the transformation was triggered by great pain. I entered an abusive relationship, was in denial, felt too guilty about leaving it, which led to dramatic consequences that haunted me for years.

Based on that, I learned the hard way to respect my soul and to push back against any bullying. The bad news is that the price was high but the good news is that when 2020 came, I was prepared!

The Power of Fully Respecting One’s Soul

The way I see it, the world is not mechanical at all, and our entire life is a free will-based collaboration with the higher powers. That collaboration is a relationship of love, sincere emotional love — like the love and trust we may feel toward a powerful friend who respects us and wants to help us — not of guilt, or fear, or anxiety-driven mumbling of theological terms.

It is that kind of relationship that heals our armor when the mobsters go after us with poisons and tricks. It is that kind of relationship that helps us push back against the avoidable abuse or sustain any inevitable abuse (like the current push for the not-so-great reset) long enough to overthrow it effectively in due time.

Based on that honest relationship, we can ask to guide us to do what’s right, to untangle a tricky situation that we have no power to untangle on our own, even ask for help with understanding of who we are and what our job in this world is!

The people who seek this kind of child-like, honest relationship with the higher powers are the biggest annoyance to the proverbial vampires because they are hard to trick. The vampires try to isolate such people by confusing their wobblier peers. They hope that the ones with clear heads get dispirited in isolation and lose hope. Don’t lose hope. The feeling of loneliness is a temporary difficulty. Love melts all monsters’ tricks. ##

 

Part II – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary 

Sources and writers can communicate in a variety of ways, both directly and indirectly. Mercola, a health-tips-and-news focused site, periodically posts items featuring individuals like those from controversial figures such as Tessa Lena, Dr. Naomi Wolfe Ph.D., A Midwestern Doctor, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and others. No source is perfect. Even an article that has many useful points may have some problematic modes of expression, as was noted by MHProNews above and previously. Even the Bible sheds light on the prudence of separating the wheat from the chaff.

 

Hotez’s brand is “helping” the poor with vaccine diplomacy and protecting the public from “misinformation,” yet he won’t debate RFK in return for 625k going to charity.

He doesn’t care about the poor and knows he’ll be destroyed—watch his past answer to just one tough question. https://t.co/XQQwBm88cy

— A Midwestern Doctor (@MidwesternDoc) June 18, 2023

 

Buckle up. @RobertKennedyJr
Available now on @Spotify pic.twitter.com/i3jK1SgElh

— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) June 15, 2023

 

Lena has experiences that a speaker’s bureau cited as: “Strong immigrant woman with a dramatic survivor story who knows how to turn vulnerability into strength and success.” Her bio doesn’t make clear if she lived under the old Soviet Union, but it does refer to a trip to Communist China where she: “fought off a sex trafficker in China” and has “survived domestic abuse.” As the above illustrates, she seeks to turn the vulnerable into empowered souls who are not afraid to “love.”

As Lena put it, above: a series experiences of great suffering that forced me to divorce the pleasing mode, and it was an inner sense of love that made me happy when I made choices from the inside.

“I know conformism! As a kid in Moscow, I was an aspiring conformist. I was in need of love, and I was trying to earn it with obeying the rules and pleasing the adults. It was a lonely time. The adults were broken — but they had the power. Praise for performance was the only currency of love I knew.

Then, as a teenager, I rebelled against everything — which felt amazing — but it seems like my rebellion was making those around me sad. Out of guilt and fear, I tried obedience again … But then life showed me the face of the machine and put me through a very cruel experience that cleared up my head. After that, I couldn’t become compliant even if I wanted to, my thinking just didn’t bend that way.

So my theory is that when aspiring conformists — who look for love in any form — grow up without seeing the face of the machine, they remain compliant. The establishment rewards the act of betraying one’s inner child — and because it promotes self-betrayal through formal education, academics can become messenger viruses of spiritual defeat and blinding pride.”

Philosophically, one can make the case that rebellion for rebellion’s own sake may not be a virtue. But rebellion with a purpose – for instance, rebellion or a fight against an oppressive situation – can be laudable.

Lena’s list of the various ways people who are intelligent can be manipulated and maneuvered into behaviors that may not be in their own self-interest is by itself worth the time to read and reflect upon her thoughts above.

There are a range of ways to look at America in general, and manufactured housing more specifically, to consider what has ‘gone wrong’ and what can be done to fix matters.  But in several of these instances, manipulation of large numbers of people is a common thread. That is not the only, but a valid reason for sharing Lena’s reflections above.

Recall that MHProNews has periodically spotlighted notions raised by billionaire Nick Hanauer to his fellow plutocrats and oligarchs. Hanauer made the interesting point that the result of great inequality (purportedly brought on by various market and public manipulation) is either a police state or an uprising against the manipulators (i.e.: what Hanauer called the oligarchs and plutocrats). Hanauer’s thesis is far from perfect, but it too made several useful points.

From a variety of viewpoints, there is evidence that social, economic, and political manipulation is occurring that is NOT in keeping with the founding principles that are supposed to guide American society. An evidence-based case can be made that among the reasons that ‘censorship’ is apparently rising in recent years is precisely because if that form of ‘police state’ like behavior weren’t exercised the truly shocking nature and depth of corruption would become known. To borrow and apply Hanauer’s imagery, without censorship and police-state like behavior, the pitchforks would be coming for those plutocrats and oligarchs’ that Hanauer admitted are enriching themselves at great cost to most others.

 

‘Free Speech Right Not Limited to Members of a Political Party or Belief’ Judge Terry Doughty ‘Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in US History’-Analysis; plus Independence, MHMarkets Update

 

The term ‘fake news’ has been bandied about for years, essentially coming to the forefront during the 2015 and since Trump presidential campaign, administration, and post-administration era.  While no one source paints the picture completely, when pieces of information that fits from several sources are laid side by side, a picture forms that is a reasonably accurate image of widespread public manipulation.  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently said that “thousands” of reporters are on the government payroll.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world. It owns newspapers. It has journalists, thousands of journalists on its payroll. They’re not supposed to be doing that in the United States.

But in 2016, President Obama changed… pic.twitter.com/oNqYF3R26S

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) July 8, 2023

.@RobertKennedyJr: The DNC Tried to Censor Me at a Debate About Censorship

“The DNC does not want me running against the President,” expressed @RobertKennedyJr. “You had 102 congresspeople signing a letter to the committee chair asking that I not be allowed to speak. So, they… pic.twitter.com/nSqYS85Ctz

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 21, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.): “The United States funds journalism in almost every country in the world. It owns newspapers. It has journalists, thousands of journalists on its payroll. They’re not supposed to be doing that in the United States. But in 2016, President Obama changed the law to make it legal now for the CIA to propagandize Americans. We can’t look at the Ukraine war and how the narrative has been formed in the minds of Americans and say that the CIA had nothing to do with that.”

There is apparent evidence that leaders in the Democratic Party are manipulating their own primary and campaign process to try to keep RFK Jr out. This is hardly the first time. There have been times when the Republican primary process has been manipulated too. But despite numerous attempts to “stop Trump” in 2016 inside and outside of the G.O.P., populist sentiment carried the day.  Trump’s message was in part that the system is rigged and he would be the one to challenge and upend a rigged system. The fact that Democrats such as Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA-D) and Democratic Socialist (who caucuses with Democrats) Bernie Sanders (VT-I-Democratic Socialist).

 

President Bill Clinton-Curing What’s Wrong by What’s Right in America, Coalition Building, Wildly Potent Quotable Quotes, Profitable Liberty Lessons-Gonzo Journalism; plus MHVille Markets Updates

Troubling, Surprising Big Bucks Fact$ – POTUS Donald Trump v Modern Presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton, Tucker Carlson Other Views in Time for Flag Day Birthday; MHVille View, plus MHMarkets Update

 

Lena used the phrase “establishment.” “Establishment” Democrats and Republicans have been at work in the U.S. for decades.  But from time-to-time populism surges at different points in American history. It did in the Gilded Age and Robber Barron era. During that time antitrust – think anti-monopoly – surged. That oligopoly style monopolists are at work can hardly be denied, which is why such efforts are made to obscure, distract from, and suppress the evidence.

 

To Lena’s points about manipulation and control, consider the application and implication of Buffett’s insights on habits.

 

Unpacking Marcel Schwantes-Inc. on “Breaking the Habits” ‘No Longer Serving You,’ Credits Buffett: “The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” – plus MHMarkets Update

In about 500 words, the evidence-linked outline of this ‘rigged system and how to fix it is framed in the op-ed linked here and below.

Investopedia’s Cautionary Post on Illusory Truth Effect. What Is the Illusory Truth Effect? How Does Illusory Truth Effect Apply in MHVille? Fact Check, Analysis, Viewpoints Plus MH Stocks Update

Speculation Swirls About Possible Democratic Replacement for Joe Biden in 2024, Among Republicans, Trump Leads but Vivek Ramaswamy Surges; Did ex-VP Pence Impale Himself? Plus MHMarkets Update

Manufactured housing should be soaring. But instead it is sliding and snoring. Why? It is due in part because a few oligopoly style ‘oligarchs’ and ‘plutocrats’ are manipulating systems and people in their own favor.

Like Trump or not, he demonstrated that the people’s voices can still be exercised against a rigged system. On the morning of the election of 2016, the New York Times in what some deemed a suppression poll, claimed that Secretary Hillary Clinton had an 85 percent chance of winning over Trump. Per the left-leaning New York Times: “Nov 8, 2016 — Hillary Clinton has an 85% chance to win.” That report was last “updated Tuesday, November 8 at 10:20 PM ET.” Less than a month before, the NY Times put the odds of Clinton winning at 91 percent. There are numerous takeaways, which include the notion that the people do have a say but they have to be willing to ignore and push ahead against the various methods used to manipulate the public.

Manufactured housing is underperforming. Ironically, Cavco’s Bill Boor has essentially substantiated much of the case that MHProNews, MHLivingNews and on a different plane MHARR has been making for years. Once that reality is accepted, the question becomes what are tens of thousands of manufactured home industry professionals, smaller investors, and others to do about it? To answer those questions see the WND op-ed by this author linked here and above. One is better off understanding the details and nuances of how the manipulation works. Once manipulation, gas lighting, and propaganda are understood, it can quickly be recognized.  Once recognized, it is often as simple as doing the opposite of what the manipulators desire.  See the related reports to learn more.

To grasp the true potential for manufactured housing watch for an upcoming and exclusive special report.

 

Cavco CEO William “Bill” Boor for MHI to Congress-ESG ‘Distorts Market’ v Roxanne Bland-Martin Lavin – ‘Follow the Money’ ‘Pay More Attention to What People Do Than to What They Say’–Facts-Analysis

Eye Opening 5Ls Testimony-Alicia Huey Chairman NAHB to Congress on ESG-Contrast to Cavco CEO William Bill Boor Remarks for Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI); plus, MHVille Stocks Update

Analyst to Cavco-‘Why is Manufactured Home Industry Production So Weak?’ Paradox Develops-‘Lower Expectations’ ‘More Singles’ in Q1-2023 Cavco Industries Quarterly Facts, Trends+MHVille Analysis

Surprising Praise for Dr. Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., CEO Manufactured Housing Institute Speaker at MH FacTOURy Summit Lauded in Benzinga – ‘Crisis’ Facts, Analysis; plus Sunday MHVille Headlines Review

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies ‘STATE Of The NATION’S HOUSING 2023’ – Manufactured Housing Industry’s 21st Century Collapse-Facts+Analysis Yields Causes, Cures; plus MHMarket Update

‘Alarming Year-Over-Year Manufactured Home Production Declines Continue’ per Manufactured Housing Assoc as Deceptive Trade Practice Concerns about ManufacturedHomes.com, MHInsider, MHI Raised

 

Part III. Daily Business News on MHProNews Markets and Headline News Segment

 

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 7.21.2023

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• Markets and consumers are in an upbeat mood. Here’s why
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• Visa and Mastercard can now be used on China’s biggest payment apps
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• Legendary computer hacker Kevin Mitnick dies at 59
• India triggers inflation fears after imposing major rice export ban
• SPAC seeking to merge with Trump’s Truth Social media company settles with the SEC
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• Viral women’s soccer ad uses doctored footage to prove a point
• AMC Theaters scraps plans to charge more for good seats
• Teens are using social media to diagnose themselves with ADHD, autism and more. Parents are alarmed

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