Friday, December 9, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Who's Behind the Crushing of the Occupy Wall Street Movement?
Naomi Wolf in the Land of the Brave and the Free: The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
Monday, November 28, 2011
Fisk on Torturers
Why do torturers really like to film their misdeeds?
"And we must forget, of course, that other American pictures from Abu Ghraib, which Obama the Good has decided we must not see, show the rape of Iraqi women and boys."
"And we must forget, of course, that other American pictures from Abu Ghraib, which Obama the Good has decided we must not see, show the rape of Iraqi women and boys."
Monday, November 21, 2011
"Help Solve an Open Murder Case"
It's certainly a good idea to ask the public for help if specialists (in this case cryptologists) can't get on with a solution to a problem.
On June 30, 1999, Ricky McCormick was found dead. He had been murdered and dumped in a field in Missouri. The only clues regarding this incident were two encrypted notes found with the victim. The FBI is asking the public for help (click here).
Also in science it is not unusual to ask for help: see Foldit - Solve Puzzles for Science. Only in the realm of politics it is still kind of "against the rules" to ask the public for help ...
1963: Dönitz spricht vor Schülern
Hitlers Nachfolger, Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, verherrlichte die deutsche Wehrmacht vor Schülern eines Gymnasiums nahe Hamburg: "Wie konnte es sein, dass ein in Nürnberg zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilter Kriegsverbrecher Schülern ungefiltert seine Sicht der Dinge präsentieren durfte? Wussten die Schüler, dass sie die rechte Hand Hitlers vor sich sitzen hatten, der nach dessen Selbstmord die Regierungsgeschäfte des "Dritten Reichs" übernommen hatte? Waren sie ausreichend auf die Fragestunde vorbereitet worden?"
Basierend auf dem preisgekrönten Beitrag "Die Dönitz-Affäre - Der Großadmiral und die kleine Stadt" für den Geschichtswettbewerb des Bundespräsidenten "Aufsehen, Empörung, Ärgernis: Skandale" 2010/2011 von Schülern des Otto-Hahn-Gymnasiums Geesthacht
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Fox News: Poor Trickery on the Poor
Before you read this, you should watch the video in order to find out how you would have reacted to the Fox News trickery with numbers.
15% of the American population living below the poverty line;
16% of the entire federal budget being spent on the poor;
9% of Americans have some kind of substance dependence, most of them cannot earn a living.
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Implicitly suggested conclusion: The American state spends overwhelmingly much on the poor, most of which are addicts and therefor unable to work for their own living.
These "facts" leave more questions open than Mr. O'Reilly dreams of: 1) What is it exactly which is spent on the poor (and not to the wealthy)? 2) Which substances are meant, medicinal substances, coffee, nicotine, alcohol, illegal drugs? How many upper class people are addicts? 3) How much does addiction contribute to low income and how many people had low income BEFORE they've got lost in some kind of addiction?
This is what Fox honestly calls "journalism" but what is in fact nothing more than the inventing and nursing of prejudices.
15% of the American population living below the poverty line;
16% of the entire federal budget being spent on the poor;
9% of Americans have some kind of substance dependence, most of them cannot earn a living.
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Implicitly suggested conclusion: The American state spends overwhelmingly much on the poor, most of which are addicts and therefor unable to work for their own living.
These "facts" leave more questions open than Mr. O'Reilly dreams of: 1) What is it exactly which is spent on the poor (and not to the wealthy)? 2) Which substances are meant, medicinal substances, coffee, nicotine, alcohol, illegal drugs? How many upper class people are addicts? 3) How much does addiction contribute to low income and how many people had low income BEFORE they've got lost in some kind of addiction?
This is what Fox honestly calls "journalism" but what is in fact nothing more than the inventing and nursing of prejudices.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The Party is Over for Wall Street Protesters
"New York City police began removing the Occupy Wall Street protesters about 1 a.m. Tuesday, saying any demonstrators who did not leave would be arrested."
Still in the eighties of the last century you could find lots of beggars in Manhattan, if you remember; then they were gone, they were banned. Salesmen and shop owners had been complaining about these subjects disturbing their businesses. It's not essentially different to banning now the protesters from Zuccotti Park, because the current financial and economic system just does not need these subjects, they're just annoying ... all those "leftists eating sushi and smoking nargilas" as they were called in Israel, if you can't get a job, why don't you move to Mumbai as suggested by British Rail minister Theresa Villiers? Of yourse, they may go on protesting and guitar playing in the beautiful woods of Oregon ...
Still in the eighties of the last century you could find lots of beggars in Manhattan, if you remember; then they were gone, they were banned. Salesmen and shop owners had been complaining about these subjects disturbing their businesses. It's not essentially different to banning now the protesters from Zuccotti Park, because the current financial and economic system just does not need these subjects, they're just annoying ... all those "leftists eating sushi and smoking nargilas" as they were called in Israel, if you can't get a job, why don't you move to Mumbai as suggested by British Rail minister Theresa Villiers? Of yourse, they may go on protesting and guitar playing in the beautiful woods of Oregon ...
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