Critical Thinking Model 1 To Analyze Thinking We Must Identify and Question its Elemental Structures Standard: Clarityunderstandable, the meaning can be grasped Could you elaborate further? Could you give me an example? Could you illustrate what you mean? Standard: Accuracyfree from errors or distortions, true How could we check on that? Standard: Precisionexact to the necessary level of detail Could you be more specific? Standard: Relevancerelating to the matter at hand How does that relate to the problem? Standard: Depthcontaining complexities and multiple interrelationships What factors make this a difficult problem? Standard: Breadthencompassing multiple viewpoints Do we need to look at this from another perspective? Standard: Logicthe parts make sense together, no contradictions Does all this make sense together? Standard: Significancefocusing on the important, not trivial Is this the most important problem to consider? Standard: FairnessJustifiable, not self-serving or one-sided Think About... State the Question
Assange: Why WikiLeaks was right to release raw cables - tech - 06 September 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the organisation's release of all 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables that it held without the redaction of the names of informants mentioned in them. In an interview with New Scientist, Assange said the leak publishing outfit's usual editorial "harm minimisation" procedures had become irrelevant after other websites published the full text of the unredacted cables. That full-text publication became possible when WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy was published in February. Written by two journalists at the newspaper The Guardian, based in London, the book revealed the decryption key for a computer file containing all the US state department cables leaked to WikiLeaks. The Guardian team say they believed the key had expired – but it had not. "That is not how file decryption works," Assange says. "We entrusted all 251,000 cables to The Guardian so they could read them and do their journalism on them," he says. Trickle of leaks
Tough Love and Free Speech Sue Scheff has some serious chutzpah. Portrayed by ABC News, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes as a beleaguered mom running a small business to help parents find treatment for troubled teens, Scheff's been telling reporters about a service called Reputation Defender, which she says allowed her to triumph over a bunch of rage-filled Internet cranks. Scheff says these vengeance-seeking wackos nearly destroyed her, an innocent businesswoman, with a series of libelous comments posted on online discussion boards. What none of this media coverage mentions is that a few years back, Scheff was sued for the same types of comments now directed at her—highlighting the abuses of a "tough love" rehab center (in this case, one of Scheff's rivals). The major news organizations also mention an $11 million libel judgment Scheff boasts about winning against one of her critics, a woman named Carey Bock. While this sort of practice isn't illegal, it's widely considered unethical.
Colin Powell regrets Iraq war intelligence - Americas Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, has said he regrets providing misleading intelligence that led the US to invade Iraq, believing it had weapons of mass destruction. Powell, the first secretary of state in the administration of George W. Bush, the former US president, which declared war on Iraq in 2003, told Al Jazeera on the 10th anniversary of the worst terror attacks on US soil that the information was a "blot on my record". "It turned out, as we discovered later, that a lot of sources that had been attested to by the intelligence community were wrong," Powell said in Washington, DC. "I understood the consequences of that failure and, as I said, I deeply regret that the information - some of the information, not all of it - was wrong," said the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It has blotted my record, but - you know - there's nothing I can do to change that blot. "There is nothing that I made up; there's nothing that I stuck in there," he said.
H.J.Res. 17: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Bill Status Status Died (Jan 7, 2011) This resolution was introduced on January 7, 2011, in a previous session of Congress, but was not passed. order determined by social media popularity Endorsing Organizations No organization has endorsed this resolution yet on POPVOX. Opposing Organizations Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance 9,569 Facebook fans 323 Twitter followers H.J.Res. 17: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual. The Bill that SHOULD be written is one to LIMIT the terms of ALL Politicians! Read full position statement. American Conservative Party 1,410 Facebook fans 1,388 Twitter followers This is nothing short of an assault on limited government and core checks and balances on the Executive Branch. Read full position statement. Other Statements No organization has opposed this resolution yet on POPVOX. The Administration
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GOING ROGUE: NATO’s War Crimes in Libya by Susan Lindauer, former US Asset covering Libya at the United Nations It’s a story CNN won’t report. Late at night there’s a pounding on the door in Misurata. Armed soldiers force young Libyan women out of their beds at gun-point. Hustling the women and teenagers into trucks, the soldiers rush the women to gang bang parties for NATO rebels—or else rape them in front of their husbands or fathers. Rapes are now ongoing acts of war in rebel-held cities, like an organized military strategy, according to refugees. These are daily occurrences, not isolated events. Flashback to Serbia The events are eerily reminiscent of Serbia’s conflict in the Balkans with its notorious rape camps— Except today NATO itself is perpetrating these War Crimes—as if they have learned the worst terror tactics from their enemies. Their actions would be categorized as War Crimes, just like Serb leader, Slobadon Milosevic—except that NATO won’t allow itself to face prosecution. NATO is wrong. And they do see.
‘Top Secret America’: A look at the military’s Joint Special Operations Command Since 9/11, this secretive group of men (and a few women) has grown tenfold while sustaining a level of obscurity that not even the CIA has managed. “We’re the dark matter. We’re the force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,” a strapping Navy SEAL, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said in describing his unit. The SEALs are just part of the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command, known by the acronym JSOC, which has grown from a rarely used hostage rescue team into America’s secret army. This article, adapted from a chapter of the newly released “Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State,” by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. “The CIA doesn’t have the size or the authority to do some of the things we can do,” said one JSOC operator. The president has given JSOC the rare authority to select individuals for its kill list — and then to kill, rather than capture, them. Obscurity has been one of the unit’s hallmarks. Body counts
US bankers stole billions' 'US bankers stole billions' Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:18PM Interview with financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris After nearly one month of “Occupy Wall Street” protests the campaign against corporate greed, social inequality and the banking industry has gone global. Press TV has interviewed financial journalist and broadcaster, Max Keiser from Paris to discuss the issue. What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview: Press TV: Max Keiser, first give us your impression; and I remember listening to a couple of things that I think maybe you could expand more on it, you said people should take capitalism in their own hands as a tangible way and in terms of targeting the stocks of certain companies in one of the coverages that I was watching you on. Keiser: Well I think what's really captured people's imagination is the scale of the fraud. Then you've got... It's like the Supreme Court and the [US President Barack] Obama administration is taunting the people.
The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus What if the greatest scam ever perpetrated was blatantly exposed, and the US media didn’t cover it? Does that mean the scam could keep going? That’s what we are about to find out. I understand the importance of the new WikiLeaks documents. I’ve written many reports detailing the crimes of Wall Street during this crisis. Just when I thought the banksters couldn’t possibly shock me anymore… they did. We were finally granted the honor and privilege of finding out the specifics, a limited one-time Federal Reserve view, of a secret taxpayer funded “backdoor bailout” by a small group of unelected bankers. Wait, what? Yes. The Federal Reserve was secretly throwing around our money in unprecedented fashion, and it wasn’t just to the usual suspects like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, etc.; it was to the entire Global Banking Cartel. Talk about the ransacking and burning of Rome! Yes, the emperor doesn’t have any clothes. Think about it. See also: