TheAuthoritarians.pdf (application/pdf Object) 50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do. Propaganda, The News, and What People Believe and Why. I believe perhaps the running of the two articles on the same theme below as natural companions might alert or illuminate the hard core believers of Mainstream Media propaganda and/or so-called official stories, to what is being done to them on a daily basis, and on why people believe what they do and how hard facts belying fundamental beliefs usually seem to reinforce them in the gullible and thoughtless.
Dr. Cynthia Boaz deals with a common source, FOX News, and their application and employment of standard propaganda and “spin” techniques which we see every day… but which I am not sure yet that the general public in America, has probably become so familiar with because of its prolific and constant use, that they hardly or seldom notice. There is a monolith of falsehood out there, and FOX News is but one of its foundation blocks. They must be chipped away if we are to topple the entire lie. 14 Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans[1]by Dr.
The Prague Post - Opinion - Indignez-vous! Ninety-three years. I'm nearing the last stage. The end cannot be far off. How lucky I am to be able to draw on the foundation of my political life: the Resistance and the National Council of the Resistance's program from 66 years ago... I was in London, where I had joined de Gaulle in March 1941, when I learned that the council had put the finishing touches on its program and adopted it on March 15, 1944: a collection of principles and values for Free France that still provides the foundation of our country's modern democracy.
We need these principles and values more than ever today. It is up to us, to all of us together, to ensure that our society remains one to be proud of: not this society of undocumented workers and deportations, of being suspicious of immigrants; not this society where our retirement and the other gains of social security are being called into question; not this society where the media are in the hands of the rich... We say to you: Take over, keep going, get angry! Fool's mate. "Fool's mate" is sometimes used to mean Scholar's mate. Fool's Mate, also known as the "Two-Move Checkmate", is the quickest possible checkmate in chess. A prime example consists of the moves: 1. f3 e5 2. g4?? Qh4# Details[edit] Fool's Mate received its name because it can only occur if White plays extraordinarily weakly (i.e. foolishly). Teed vs. After 6...Rh6? The same basic mating pattern can also occur later in the game. 1. d4 f5 2. 5. e3 Threatening Qh5#, a basic Fool's Mate. 5... h5 6. 6.Be2 is probably better, but the move played sets a trap. 6...
Defending against Bg6#, but ... 7. White sacrifices his queen to draw the black rook away from its control of g6. 7... A similar mate can occur in From's Gambit: 1. f4 e5 2. g3? Even more generally, the term Fool's Mate is used in chess variants to mean the shortest possible mate, especially those which bear a resemblance to the orthodox chess Fool's Mate.
Greco vs. Final position after 8.Bg6# Similar traps[edit] 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. 7. gxh7+! Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies. Clifford A. Pickover's Home Page. World Clock. The Electric Universe Pt1 of 4. Home. WEHI-TV | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Molecular Visualizations of DNA. Symmetry: from Galois to the discovery of the Monster and Moonshine. Winter’s Tale, Royal Ballet, ROH, Covent Garden, April 2014 April 11, 2014 For Christopher Wheeldon to take on Shakespeare is a bold move. The words are of huge importance, but so they are in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, which Wheeldon successfully produced as a ballet three years ago, and when he expressed an interest in tackling the Bard at that time, Nicholas Hytner suggested Winter’s Tale. … Read more > Faust, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, April 2014 April 5, 2014 With only a few weeks to go before opening night, Anna Netrebko pulled out from the role of Marguerite, but we need not have worried.
Read more > Lest We Forget, English National Ballet, ENB, Barbican, April 2014 April 3, 2014 One hundred years after the start of The Great War, this commemoration of its horrors opened at the Barbican last night with three new ballets specially commissioned by artistic director Tamara Rojo. Read more > See all Theatre Reviews. The Wagnerian Method. When physicist John Smith spent the night in his garden with the score to Götterdämmerung, the final opera in Richard Wagner’s four-part, 15-hour epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, he wasn’t interested in its account of the apocalyptic struggle of Norse gods for control of the world. Smith was concerned with a struggle of a different sort—one between the opera’s words and music that might elucidate the controversial German composer’s peculiar vision for the future of art. On Smith’s mind was an age-old difficulty all soprano singers face: They mispronounce lyrics when singing powerfully in the top half of their range.
This “soprano problem” was formally recognized at least as far back as 1843, when French composer Hector Berlioz wrote in his Treatise on Instrumentation that “[sopranos] should not be required to sing many words on high phrases, since this makes the pronunciation of syllables very difficult if not impossible.” Home. The Century Of The Self - Part 1 of 4 - By Adam Curtis. Unfolding the Earth. The Dialectics of Change and the Folly of Activism from the Neck Up. By Edward-Yemil Rosario People often ask me to talk about solutions. I believe that most of the time people are genuinely interested in what I have to say. However, sometimes I suspect the question is a passive/ aggressive way to dismiss my observations, mistakenly thinking that because I can adequately articulate what is, that I have lost sight of what can be.
I am deeply steeped in theory and scholarly pursuits, but I am also a doer — I am an activist by profession. Activism is a way of engaging the mind/ body in the service of change. The process itself is pure creativity. I have come to understand that the process of activism (what I like to call engaged spirituality) as just that — a process. I will submit that many politically-minded people approach political science from an almost purely philosophical perspective. I’m going to call this framework, Spiral Dialectics, and I borrow heavily from Engels who was a collaborator of Karl Marx’s. 1. 1. 2. 3. Platonism is an extreme ideal. 47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself.
I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr. <div class="slide-intro-bottom"><a href=" Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
Forpressfound - WHY PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE ALMOST ANYTHING. You will never fall in the traps of the propaganda-world again: you'll see through their lies. Fwd. and intro by Henk Ruyssenaars September 27th 2010 - That you have been screwed financially for ages is not new to you, is it? Otherwise you can take your pick here. - Url.: And you know why "People Will Believe Almost Anything"? It's the permanent propaganda via the big 6 Media, their papers, radio and television! It is global. And it goes for most human beings in the mainstream media web the world over and which the warmongers own. - "Ownership Chart: The Big Six" Media - Url.: And I know the following article is a golden oldie, but that's exactly why it's still important since people are hit by it daily: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything.
By Tim O'Shea 10-30-2007 - Aldous Huxley's inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. . - Super Sunday Edward L. Extreme Thinkover. Michael Pollan gives a plant's-eye view. How to Debate Without Further Dividing People - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org. By Nick Morgan | 3:27 PM May 27, 2009 How do you argue your side of an emotional, contentious issue in a way that doesn’t further divide people? President Obama’s recent speech, “Protecting Our Security and Our Values,” delivered at the National Archives on May 21, 2009, was an example of a well-argued speech that unfortunately will only inflame the debate further. The speech is a clearly constructed brief on what the Obama Administration has done to keep America safe — and how it has diverged from the previous administration’s attempts to do exactly the same thing. However you feel about the politics of the matter, if Obama was hoping to still the debate, here’s where he went wrong: Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions.
And I believe that those decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people. In other words, we went off course. What should Obama have done differently? The bottom line? Men at 65: New Findings On Well-Being. THE secret of emotional health among older men is not a successful career, a happy marriage or a stable childhood, new findings suggest. It lies instead in an ability to handle life's blows without passivity, blame or bitterness. The findings, which contradict widely held theories about the importance of early life for emotional well-being in adulthood, are among recent conclusions of a study of 173 men who have been scrutinized at five-year intervals since they graduated from Harvard in the early 1940's.
The project, known as the Grant study after the W. T. The researchers defined emotional health at 65 as the ''clear ability to play and to work and to love,'' and a feeling of satisfaction with life. These were among their findings: * Pragmatism and dependability are particularly important. * Many factors in early life, even devastating problems in childhood, had virtually no effect on well-being at 65. * Severe depression earlier in life caused problems that persisted. 'Lots of Surprises'
Figures of Speech - Teach a Kid to Argue. Why would any sane parent teach his kids to talk back? Because, this father found, it actually increased family harmony. (First published in Disney’s Wondertime Magazine. The article was nominated for a 2007 National Magazine Award.) Those of you who don’t have perfect children will find this familiar: Just as I was withdrawing money in a bank lobby, my 5-year-old daughter chose to throw a temper tantrum, screaming and writhing on the floor while a couple of elderly ladies looked on in disgust.
(Their children, apparently, had been perfect.) I gave Dorothy a disappointed look and said, “That argument won’t work, sweetheart. She blinked a couple of times and picked herself up off the floor, pouting but quiet. “What did you say to her?” I explained that “pathetic” was a term used in rhetoric, the ancient art of argument. Under my tutelage in the years that followed, Dorothy and her younger brother, George, became keenly, even alarmingly, persuasive. Why on earth would any parent want that? 12 Tricks Your Brain is Playing on You - Dumb Little Man. Is your mind playing tricks on you and robbing you of your happiness? Our minds are complex and are often our own worst enemies when it comes to being happy. Really. Our own brains that we know and love deceive us into thinking something is right when it is really wrong, that we’re in love when we’re not, etc. Recognizing and debunking these traps your mind leads you into is essential to realizing a lasting happiness, into creating stronger relationships, and to succeeding in your career.
Check out this list to see if you are being deceived by your own mind! See how our minds play tricks on us? Many Eyes. The Top 10 Existential Movies of All Time. Browsing through my DVD collection recently I realized that I have a fairly decent selection of what can be called 'existential movies' -- philosophical films that study the nature of existence and what it means to be alive. It's debatable as to what defines the 'quintessential' existential movie, but ultimately it must speak to the human condition and reframe it in such a way that the viewer gains an enhanced appreciation of their own existence and situation in life.
These are the kinds of films that you find yourself reflecting back upon time and time again as you engage in your own day-to-day life, struggles and relationships. Thus, I present to you the top 10 existential movies of all time: 10. The best of the 'last man on Earth' movies, The Quiet Earth (1985) looks at human nature and the value of social relationships through a post-apocalyptic lens. 9. The movie also acknowledges the harsh realities of modern relationships. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.