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POPSDangers of "Group Think" Evident in March to War These are characteristics of most all groups, especially highly charged political parties which are easily recognized here. Note the silence of individuals plays a key role in conformity. Speak up! Collective Rationalization reminds me of the "group think" that led America to war against Iraq (per the neoconservatives preconceived plans), even though it did not harbor terrorists or attack the U.S., just because Bush and Cheney, after 9/11, said so. This same "group think" is within the entire story of 9/11 and the Collective Rationalization for a continued "war on terrorism" to invade other countries at will. GROUP THINK MUST BE CHALLENGED TO PREVENT UNJUST WARS. Number 8 (did not have room to clip) is here: Mindguards: Some members appoint themselves to the role of protecting the group from adverse information that might threaten group complacency.
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POPSNeave.com Media Fun Chris Pirillo is awesome..Flash Earth, virtual planetarium, constellations on off, imagination, fractal explorer, fractals, television channel hop, strobe, optical illusion, dandilion blow...microphone input, webcam amazing effects...what fun. classic games. space invaders tetras ticktacktoe. frogger,imbed on website, Fun Widgets on Neave's site.
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POPSCan human consciousness survive without a brain? "Why do you think there is such resistance to studies like yours? Because we're pushing through the boundaries of science, working against assumptions and perceptions that have been fixed. A lot of people hold this idea that, well, when you die, you die; that's it. Death is a moment — you know you're either dead or alive. All these things are not scientifically valid, but they're social perceptions.How is technology challenging the perception that death is a moment?"
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POPSThe rotating grid illusion A surprising optical illusion which is related to temporal aliasing, a visual phenomenon also known as the stroboscopic effect, which accounts for the fact that in video or motion pictures, wheels sometimes appear to be turning backwards.
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POPSillusion of progress The progress lies instead in real, physical PRODUCTION of wealth, and improvement of the population's general welfare.
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POPSGM falls to 1950 levels; European sales stung I really am debating buying this. If they would just have a whole line of hybrids and electrics ready to go in a year or two I would gobble up this stock. But right now they seem to be holding on to the illusion of gas/diesel vehicles. Not as bad as ford, but certainly they are not going the route of toyota.
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POPS"Kiplin' vs. Palin The Copybook Headings This had more meat than I could fit in the clip. It's well worth reading. Why is "learning from past mistakes" so taboo in this country. Wouldn't life be easier if we didn't keep falling into the same pits that we just crawled out of?
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POPSThe real Americans It seems her #1 job is to continue the illusion that the ultimate elitist party, the party of CEO and wall street fat cats is really the party of average America disparagingly cast as Joe and Jane six pack, too ignorant and uneducated to notice the phoniness. Ignore the 100000000 bank account, 10 homes and 13 cars, McCain represents the working American. What a crock of sh**!!
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POPSPresidential Candidate AGAINST the $700 Billion Bailout I understand people need money to live, but they need real money not more paper money made out of thin air. American's need leaders that can help them understand our Constitution and what real money is and how it can turn our country around. Baldwin was endorsed by Ron Paul on Sept 22. Although Baldwin is a pastor, he has consistently and rightfully spoken out against Bush and Congress. Check the party platform. Watch the video. Then decide.
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POPS Why We Can't Imagine Death? "This position holds that our ancestors suffered the unshakable illusion that their minds were immortal, and it’s this hiccup of gross irrationality that we have unmistakably inherited from them. Individual human beings, by virtue of their evolved cognitive architecture, had trouble conceptualizing their own psychological inexistence from the start."
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POPS$700 Billion Bailout Helps Treasury Secretary & His CEO Friends, Hurts Taxpayers In this $700 billion bailout, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has cooked up a fishy plan that has taxpayers overpaying for near-worthless paper assets, while giving banks an excuse to falsely mark up the value of that paper to make bad paper look like gold. Any capital actually gained by the banks would be illusory at best. Timing is everything. This plan does not fix anything--it simply delays the crash until AFTER the election, and it creates "the illusion of stronger financial institutions, not strengthening them." Paulson is "helping his friends" (including "Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack.") It took 150 years to make Confederate money worth a dime... Apparently alchemist Henry Paulson has found a way to do it overnight.
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POPSBottled water really is often a polluted offering Too many think if it is bottled it must be good water - not so. And the plastic bottles are a major environmental problem. The cost of transporting this product in energy terms is also immense. We need to think better!
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POPSThe Failed Bailout's Fallout for McCain "I went to Washington last week to make sure that the taxpayers of Ohio and across this great country were not left footing the bill for mistakes made on Wall Street and in Washington," McCain said at a campaign rally in the swing state of Ohio. McCain shows up in DC, has a few conversations with Congressional leaders, is seen walking through a lobby in the congressional building and tries to create the illusion that he brokered an economy-saving deal. It was all smoke and mirrors. Worse, there was no deal. McCain had no sway with the House Republicans. He failed to deliver what he promised. That failure is fair game.
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POPSGovernment still not listening on Injured Servicemen
There is an illusion amongst civilians that Service Men get decent medical treatment. It is a myth that should be rammed down the throats of every politician and apologists for MP's. Treatment on wards can be first class. Aftercare is and always has been, none existent. When a patient is released from hospital care, treatment invariably ends. Old SBA's now openly brag abut the pain hey inflicted on out-patients. That could be funny but for the fact that many illnesses were never diagnosed properly. I know a man who contacted hepatitis in 1966, a condition that destroyed his health, which went undiagnosed until 1999, when he suffered a massive heart attack. In those day a patient was returned to Unit the instant he could walk. No after care, no constant surveillance, no real concern for a patient's well-being. If you were ill you were a malingerer, a shot of penicillin in the backside and back to duty for you Me Boy. So when you read the reply from Downing Street, just take it
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POPSThink we’re tough? Think again
the war is illegal. Therefore, regardless the “provocation,” every person in Iraq who has been killed by a U.S. soldier, or died as a result of the occupation/invasion, has been murdered -- with the blood squarely traceable to America’s hands. So now, we just spill guts. Nonetheless, I’m sure if you look really, really hard, you may find some folks who consider those troops, and tons more like ‘em, to be real Americans, cut from the same cloth as the super-patriot archetype so frequently portrayed and firmly established decades ago by John Wayne. I wonder, though, how many of them would know Wayne never served in the military, receiving not one but two deferments during World War II. In other words, his persona was an illusion. And so, apparently, is the one we Americans have collectively assigned ourselves since childhood, that of liberty’s uncompromising defender who, upon sensing the slightest hint of mortal danger to the Constitution, would, along with a nation full of eq
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