Monthly Archives: February 2015
Framing a debate
It’s quite difficult to describe the way people can completely distort a topic by framing a debate. Just because I can explain it, it doesn’t mean you can understand it. Basically people can leave out certain parts of a discussion, because it doesn’t support the point they are tying to make, or their general overarching beliefs. Often it is deliberate, but sometimes an incorrect belief occurs because certain facts or observation are simply not known and the lack of information has framed the observation. Example, if a space alien landed on earth on an Australian beach in the summer, that alien might think people always wear beach wear, because its always hot. That alien might think everyone speaks English, wears rubber sandals, drinks beer. Of course the aliens observations are framed by only seeing part of the picture. Of course we could also deliberately frame the observation and show the alien our science institutions to make the alien think we are smart.
Even really smart people can draw the wrong conclusions from a framed observation or debate. Its easier to explain with some pictures.
Some Australian trees with a reflection in water.
Something is going wrong here, I’m sure you have noticed the right side of the picture.
This is the same picture with just a little more added to the frame, suddenly your mind starts doing all kind of back flips trying to explain to itself what is wrong here and what piece should be ignored or is perhaps some sort of trickery. The problem is you have been caught by the cognitive dissonance of your optical perception. Your visual processing wants to chop certain parts of the picture out because they fly in the face of a fundamental assumption, gravity. As you are struggling with this other piece start to seem out of place that you discounted before at being too trivial to worry about. Finally you realize you were tricked from the beginning, because you made an incorrect assumption from the beginning. Your world was literally upside down.
Back to normal, you were shown the world upside down and you almost believed it.
This is how powerful framing is in debates and information in general. You can be made to believe things fundamentally opposite to the truth and be quite certain of them, if you consider only some of the available information. So what trickery did I use to make those pictures? Just the cropping tool and a vertical flip of the picture. I could have done it with a few printed photos, a razor blade and ruler, a computer was not required and neither was anything complex.
Remember what just happened in your head and how it happened,
you are probably being fooled like this about a lot of things.
Billions wasted on job search fraud
ABC 4 corners investigation has uncovered the amoral gamification of government contracts purported to offer job seeker assistance.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC1504H004S00
This video may not be available after march 9 2015 so get in fast.
Forging and falsifying documents seemed to be industry standard practice.
Specific rorts uncovered were:
Categorizing people into more at risk categories in order to get more funding.
Claiming payments for assisting job seekers into work even when the job seeker was not assisted.
Funneling job seekers into in-house training courses order to claim a training payment, often the training was low quality, inappropriate or never actually provided.
What is more shocking was successive governments were aware of the widespread fraud and waste but did nothing to punish the fraudsters.
So a total of 18 billion dollars was spent on this program, conservative estimates are that about half was fraud by the contracted agencies.
18 billion dollars spent over a 16 year period is a lot of money, what else could be done with such a sum.
In November 1960 President Kennedy was elected and quite quickly promised to have a man on the moon before 1970.
In the period of 1961 and 1969, 34 billion dollars was spend on getting man on the moon.
So effectively we could have had half a moon landing for the price of the wacky ideologically driven ‘be mean to the battlers’ program.
The original NASA moon landing from 1961 to 1969 cost 34 billion dollars. Australia wasted about half this amount harassing unemployed people in the early 21 century and has not landed a man on the moon.
So who is behind all of this, who else Tony Abbott,
Minister for employment when the program was announced,
under John Howard.
Polacks emigrate to 8chan, 4chan dying
A 8chan/pol/ user in the process of migration.
https://8ch.net/pol/index.html
http://h.8ch.net/pol/
With recent scandals such as #Gamergate, censorship, moderation bias and the infestation of SJW moderators, The diehard politically incorrect /pol/ users (AKA Polacks) have largely left 4chan and have set up their HQ in the rather new 8chan, also called infinitychan.
8chan was designed to look much like /pol/ did on 4chan and its is just as politically incorrect as ever. Its not a place for the weak of heart, stomach, or nerves.
Have you blood pressure medication in standby, along with you butt hurt cream if you dare visit 8chan/pol/ . You’ll read some interesting discussions which you will be able to take part in anonymously* (what passes for anonymously these days at least), you also read some complete crap and some really offensive things. You’ll read things there some people won’t wont you to read, and one of those people may be you.
It’s called freedom of speech,
and it also includes the freedom to be offended,
and offend others.
If the following video offends you, 8chan/pol/ may not be the right place for you.
Hjernevask (Brainwash) Norway 2010
A television series from Norway broadcast in 2010 attempting to address a series of issues that had been heavily influenced by cultural Marxism in many Scandinavian countries.
The series uses the provocative title meaning ‘Hjernevask’ brainwash, implying the entire society has been brainwashed and simply cannot see the fact.
When the man from the anti racism body states “there are no races”,
it really makes you want to ask “if there are no races, how can there be racism?”
What makes the series most interesting is that it does not really push any one conclusion but rather shows a series of viewpoints from high profile Norwegian and international commentators.
So make up your own mind.
Make sure you turn on subtitles!
The entire series as a YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd9_g7lAICxtlGbxh4_z8ik178o8CDPnv
Or simply start at part one of the seven part series:
Abbott whip it and shake it off
After divisive party spill (leadership) vote Tony Abbott effectively shoots the messenger by sacking party whip Phillip Ruddock. Even Opposition parties were taken aback at the apparent knee jerk reflex of Tony Abbott’s faction, dishonoring a well liked and long serving parliamentarian.
As the bad press around Abbott mounts, one can only imagine he is simply living in a self constructed fantasy land. Having bee initially endorsed by the media tyrant Rupert Murdoch, he has now completely ‘Jumped the shark’ now being criticized by the very same Murdoch.
Sydney mayor KO’d at polling booth
The puppets are fighting again.
It really goes to show the circus politics descends into. The system is based on two things that you will see again and again;
1) it is based on violence
2) the rules don’t apply to the rulers and their puppets.
Look at how they behave. Honestly you can make this stuff up.
This is your ‘democracy’ in action.
Ryde mayor Bill Pickering has been knocked unconscious and taken to hospital after tensions erupted at a polling booth for a council byelection on Saturday.
Cr Pickering was handing out ham sandwiches at Putney Public School when he was allegedly confronted by independent candidate Vic Tagg, according to deputy mayor Roy Maggio, who witnessed the incident.
Cr Maggio described the punch as a “king hit” which caused Cr Pickering to fall backwards into a garden bed, at which point he began to have a seizure.
Voting was under way at the time for the East Ward byelection, which was triggered by the resignation in December of former mayor Ivan Petch, who was found by ICAC to have engaged in corrupt conduct.
It is understood Mr Tagg, who is a former mayor of Ryde and former-Liberal councillor, had been talking to voters at the booth and describing the Liberal party as “corrupt” before he allegedly approached Cr Pickering and punched him in the jaw.
Both Cr Pickering and Cr Maggio are members of the Liberal Party. Mr Tagg is currently the president of the Chamber of Commerce and chairman of Ryde-Hunters Hill Life Education. He unsuccessfully ran as an independent candidate for the East Ward in the 2012 Ryde City Council elections.
Independent candidate Vic Tagg.
Police and ambulance were called to the scene and Cr Pickering, 52, was taken to Ryde Hospital.
He is in a stable condition in hospital, where he has been put in a neckbrace and is awaiting the results of scans to determine the extent of his injuries, according to a person close to Cr Pickering who did not wish to be named.
Cr Pickering has also given a statement to police from his hospital bed.
Mr Tagg allegedly left the school after the incident and could not be contacted on Saturday afternoon.
Cr Maggio said a “sombre” mood descended on the polling booth after the incident, and that most of the other candidates left the site soon after.
Police are investigating the matter and ask anyone with information that has not already spoken to police to come forward.
Mr Petch, who was suspended by Local Government Minister Paul Toole, resigned in December after his Supreme Court challenge to the ICAC’s corruption findings failed.
The ICAC also recommended the Director of Public Prosecutions examine whether Mr Tagg should be pursued for breaches of campaign donation laws.
Lisa Visentin with Leesha McKenny
Muslim pedophile ring Halifax
Rotherham was not an isolated incident, the pedophilia of Islam is pervasive.
Another thing pervasive is the refusal to state that yet again Muslims are responsible, 3 are even named Mohahmad.
Arrested and charged in Halifax for crimes during 2005 – 2011:
Hedar Ali, 35, of Nantwich, Cheshire. He is charged with rape (x2) and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation (x2).
Fasil Mahmood, 35, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 and supply of a class B Drug.
Zameer Asif, 24, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child.
Mohammed Ramzan, 34, of Bradford. He is charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child under 16, rape and trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Khalid Zaman, 37, of Bradford. He is charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child under 16, rape (x2) and supply of a class B drug.
Ataf Ali, 32, of Bradford. He is charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child under 16 and voyeurism.
Mohammed Fiaz Askar, 32, of Bradford. He is charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child under 16.
Aesan Pervez, 26, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual assault (x3).
Mansoor Akhtar, 23, of Huddersfield. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x2) and the supply of a class B drug.
Furqaan Ghafar, 30, of Derby. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Aftab Hussain, 35, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual grooming, sexual assault and sexual activity with a child under 16 (x2).
Talib Saddiq, 29, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x2).
Amaar Ali Ditta, 25, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x2).
Silkander Malik, 30, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Akbar Aziz Hussain, 29, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 and supply of a class B drug.
Azeem Subhani, 23, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x2).
Tahir Mahmood, 42, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x3) and sexual assault.
Mohammed Ahmed, 41, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Haaris Ahmed, 31, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x3) and supply of a class B drug (x3).
Taukeer Butt, 29, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16 (x4).
Arshad Majid, 24, of Shipley. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Christopher Mulqueen-Bennett, 36, of Newport (Gwent). He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Muhammed Asim Janjuha, 33, of Bradford. He is charged with rape.
Haider Ali, 39, of Halifax. He is charged with rape, sexual activity with a child under 16 and causing a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity without consent.
Sikander Ishaq, 30, of Halifax. He is charged with sexual activity with a child under 16.
Russian traffic enforcement experiment
Russian activists attempt to stop people driving on the sidewalk near a gas station.
Several things about this protest action are quite surprising.
1: People, with out any physical force, just the threat of shaming violators, can affect a change in behavior.
2: About half of people will change their ways when just faced with shame or minor inconvenience.
3: The most serious offenders are people who are truly obnoxious.
4: Government officials are very likely to break the rules, at 3:14 a Russian internal affairs spokesman arrives and then reverses back out again, rules are made for the government to break.
Abbott 39pc spilled
Even four out of every ten ‘Liberal’ party member want Tony Abbott Gone. The count down begins until it is 51% and then time for a new puppet.
Julie Bishop says Fuck Tony Abbott
‘Messiah’ to turd in just over 12 months, he deserved it for being such a con man.
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