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9/11 Free Fall 1/16/14: Tony Szamboti and Gerry B. - Lauren Johnson - 26-01-2014
--Omissions in NIST's WTC 7 Report
9/11 Free Fall 1/16/14: Tony Szamboti and Gerry B. - Peter Lemkin - 26-01-2014
Sadly, all too many American have been trained via propaganda to not believe or trust evidence-based reality; rather they engage in magical thinking [America is exceptional and some god's will; owning more stuff makes one a more important and better person; bad food is good for you; Nature is not to be trusted as much as the unnatural; War is Peace; the Amerikan Government is still functional and working in the best interests of the People; we have a democracy; it's OK to have a class system in the USA; The two party system covers the range of political/social thought; a private bank can run our monetary system - that's fine; the CIA, FBI, NSA and all the 20-odd others are boyscouts working for the good of the People; big conspiracies are impossible; American has the best healthcare in the world; TV is reality - reality is TV; all the strange changes in weather can be chalked up to flukes; I'm not involved - don't ask me to think, less so to act.....besides I'm afraid of the consequences of both thinking and acting; etc.]
There are many reasons for all the above...but one is the low literacy/reading rates and poor (and declining) educational levels in the USA:
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[TD="bgcolor: #54D427, colspan: 2"]Reading Statistics[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD="width: 550"]Total percent of U.S. population that has specific reading disorders[/TD]
[TD="width: 94"]15%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of american adults who can't understand the labels on their prescriptions[/TD]
[TD]46%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percent of young people who claim they read more than 10 books a year[/TD]
[TD]56%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of U.S. adults who are unable to read an 8th grade level book[/TD]
[TD]50%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total amount of words read annually by a person who reads 15 minutes a day[/TD]
[TD]1 million[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percent of U.S. high school graduates who will never read a book after high school[/TD]
[TD]33%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of college students who will never read another book after they graduate[/TD]
[TD]42%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of U.S. families who did not buy a book this year[/TD]
[TD]80%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of adults that have not been in a book store in the past 5 years[/TD]
[TD]70%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of books started that aren't read to completion[/TD]
[TD]57%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percent of U.S. students that are dyslexic[/TD]
[TD]15%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total percentage of NASA employees that are dyslexic[/TD]
[TD]50%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Total number of U.S. inmates that are literate[/TD]
[TD]15%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
How are most Americans to be explained complex events?!....such as the evidence and contradictions of the official version of events on 9/11/01. ::captain::
9/11 Free Fall 1/16/14: Tony Szamboti and Gerry B. - David Guyatt - 26-01-2014
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Sadly, all too many American have been trained via propaganda to not believe or trust evidence-based reality; rather they engage in magical thinking [America is exceptional and some god's will; owning more stuff makes one a more important and better person; bad food is good for you; Nature is not to be trusted as much as the unnatural; War is Peace; the Amerikan Government is still functional and working in the best interests of the People; we have a democracy; it's OK to have a class system in the USA; The two party system covers the range of political/social thought; a private bank can run our monetary system - that's fine; the CIA, FBI, NSA and all the 20-odd others are boyscouts working for the good of the People; big conspiracies are impossible; American has the best healthcare in the world; TV is reality - reality is TV; all the strange changes in weather can be chalked up to flukes; I'm not involved - don't ask me to think, less so to act.....besides I'm afraid of the consequences of both thinking and acting; etc.]
Love it. You should print and frame this post and put it on your wall for posterity Pete.
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9/11 Free Fall 1/16/14: Tony Szamboti and Gerry B. - Peter Lemkin - 26-01-2014
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Sadly, all too many American have been trained via propaganda to not believe or trust evidence-based reality; rather they engage in magical thinking [America is exceptional and some god's will; owning more stuff makes one a more important and better person; bad food is good for you; Nature is not to be trusted as much as the unnatural; War is Peace; the Amerikan Government is still functional and working in the best interests of the People; we have a democracy; it's OK to have a class system in the USA; The two party system covers the range of political/social thought; a private bank can run our monetary system - that's fine; the CIA, FBI, NSA and all the 20-odd others are boyscouts working for the good of the People; big conspiracies are impossible; American has the best healthcare in the world; TV is reality - reality is TV; all the strange changes in weather can be chalked up to flukes; I'm not involved - don't ask me to think, less so to act.....besides I'm afraid of the consequences of both thinking and acting; etc.]
Love it. You should print and frame this post and put it on your wall for posterity Pete.
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Gee....and when I posted it I felt badly for having left out many other things I had in mind on the topic [the 'etc.']....
9/11 Free Fall 1/16/14: Tony Szamboti and Gerry B. - David Guyatt - 26-01-2014
Well, I've already stolen it old sausage, and posted it somewhere else...