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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsStudy: Half of people “remember” events that never happened
The study experimented with implanting fake (but relatively harmless) memories, such as taking a childhood hot-air balloon ride, pulling a prank on a teacher, or causing trouble at a family wedding, into the minds of study participants. Researchers told them about the imaginary events as if they were real, and about 30 percent of participants appeared to “remember” it happening, even elaborating on how it occurred and describing details of what it was like.
Al Gore, Christmas Grinch
Random Note #195,732 — Fake News
What we’re witnessing with all the talk and chatter about Russia hacking the US election is the ultimate in fake news. Fake news talked up like a Goebbels’s lie until the momentum makes the fake, real.
BBC’s big white lie over the birth of polar bear in popular documentary Frozen Planet — Daily Telegraph
There’s nothing new under the sun. There’s been a lot said and written about “fake news” in recent weeks since the US election, but of course it is not a new phenomenon. Fake news has been around forever and is simply repackaged and rebranded what has always been known as propaganda. Climate change and environmentalism more broadly have mastered the art but not so much to avoid the acute observer.
“…At no point are viewers told they were filmed last Christmas in a den underneath a zoo’s polar bear enclosure. The den was fitted with cameras shortly before the birth of the cubs. Only viewers who visited the Frozen Planet website and found a video by the producer Kathryn Jeffs would have found the truth…”
Mark Day: media got it wrong on Turnbull — Andrew Bolt — Herald Sun
"..The day Malcolm Turnbull snatched the leadership from Tony Abbott I wondered how on earth the media could take his boasted talents seriously: Mark Day: media got it wrong on Turnbull
Another Climate Alarmist Admits Real Motive Behind Warming Scare — Investor’s Business Daily
Whoops…Didn’t mean to let this very smelly cat out of the bag. “….So what is the goal of environmental policy? “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…” said Edenhofer
Sydney’s Badgerys Creek airport will be hub for 9000 new jobs — The Australian
Example A was Badgerys Creek Airport. It been mooted since 1946 and firmly on the agenda since 1986. Now that all the T’s have been crossed and I’s dotted we are told that it will still take 10 years until completion. Meanwhile, only three weeks ago we learnt of the completion of the 747 capable, 2.7 kilometre airstrip, complete with aprons, built at Wellcamp, west of Toowoomba by private enterprise in 19 months. The difference?? The former is a government enterprise and the latter is private enterprise. As Ronald Reagan said, “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem”
Straight And To The Point
A short and sweet pithy missive in todays Australian. "..Energy crisis? No country with uranium reserves such as ours has the right to complain of an energy crisis. The only obstacle to developing a nuclear power industry is ignorance.." Graham Hood, Melbourne,...
West proves not all cultures are equal — Jennifer Oriel — The Australian
For the past 40 years, Western immigration policy has been based on multicultural ideology. Its consequence is clear: Islamism has become a Western condition. Successive governments have diluted Western values to the point where they are no longer taught in schools. The result is a population unschooled in the genius of our civilisation whose youth cannot understand why it is worth defending. Multicultural ideology must give way to a renaissance of Western civilisation in which Australian exceptionalism is celebrated and Islamism is sent packing ——-There were few Anzacs left to see what the West has become. I suppose that’s a kind of mercy. We have dishonoured the millions of soldiers who laid down their lives in the 20th century fighting for our freedom and the future of Western civilisation. We should hang our heads in shame for letting the Anzac legacy come to this. We are the descendants of the world’s most enlightened civilisation. It is our turn to fight for its future.
The next level video games are more addictive than ever. This is what happens when kids can’t turn them off — Washington Post
Before you shell out hundreds of dollars for your kids Christmas, you MUST read this. This is what happens when kids can’t turn them off.
“…..It was around that time when a relative gave Byrne and his brother an Xbox. Gaming was deemed a privilege Byrne would lose if he misbehaved. But that structure soon proved hard to implement. “He was relentless about asking when he could play — it was a continuous negotiation,” Robin said. The routine grew exhausting, she added, and sometimes she and Terrence caved in to Byrne’s demands. “The games were his refuge.” The pattern worsened after Byrne entered middle school.
“In seventh grade the downward spiral began, after having maintained High Honour Roll for one quarter, I was given a laptop. This is when my addiction to screens began.” Byrne wrote these words years later as part of a reflective essay assignment while he was away at the wilderness therapy program….”