How facts backfire

Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire
By Joe Keohane July 11, 2010 

It’s one of the great assumptions underlying modern democracy that an informed citizenry is preferable to an uninformed one. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1789. This notion, carried down through the years, underlies everything from humble political pamphlets to presidential debates to the very notion of a free press. Mankind may be crooked timber, as Kant put it, uniquely susceptible to ignorance and misinformation, but it’s an article of faith that knowledge is the best remedy. If people are furnished with the facts, they will be clearer thinkers and better citizens. If they are ignorant, facts will enlighten them. If they are mistaken, facts will set them straight.

In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?

Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.

9/11 research to be censored from ‘Project Censored’

“Progressive” Washington Think Tank Censors All Independent 9/11 Research; ‘Project Censored’ watchdog was told that nothing about 9/11 will be published
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, Sept 21st, 2010

The director of a prominent investigative journalism group has told reporters that the organisation’s work is being censored because it continues to highlight stories surrounding questions over the official explanation of events on the 11th of September 2001.

Project Censored is a long running non-profit national media watchdog group that was founded in 1976 by journalism professor Carl Jensen.
It is operated out of the School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State University, with both faculty and students involved in its preparation.
The project’s core directive is to highlight newsworthy stories that have been overlooked, ignored or actively censored by the corporate mainstream media.

Vatic 9/11 Special [2010]

This is a copy of the Vatic 9/11 Weekend Special.

The 9/11 Special does not shirk from saying that 9/11 was a nuclear event, that corporate media fooled the world with computer generated images (CGI), and that US Government/Military Insiders, Mossad/Israel, and zionists within the banks and media are the culprits.

Yes, indeed, these triple rabbit holes of 9/11 nukes, CGI, and "whodunnit" are very deep and twisted. But if you only have time for limited 9/11 review, put these three on your must explore list:

» September Clues 2008 Complete,
» Nuclear destruction of the WTC, and
» Israel did 9/11, ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD!!

For your own peace of mind, satisfy for yourself whether or not they have merit. At risk is our entire system of justice.

To help fortify your resolve in giving these 9/11 rabbit holes a fair judgment, consider Mr. Bridges' "Right is Radical" commentary. When the norm for understanding has been established and skewed by corporate media who were part of the conspiracy, then correct views on the 9/11 events -- which conform with fact, evidence, and truth -- will fall beyond the norm and be radical-by-design as per the perpetrator's PYSOPS.

Why should you care about this nine year old event today? Aside from the lingering effects of radiation in NYC affecting first responders and residents, you should care that the true 9/11 perpetrators are brought to justice, because left unchecked gives them and their successors free reign (again and again) to manipulate us and the world into other wrongful wars and crimes against humanity. Nations fall if justice is not pursued. Only we can save it.

Among the most basic of your take-away action items from this Vatic 9/11 Special, is that you need to be part of the voice to demand an independent investigation of 9/11. After that, you need to be questioning and denouncing all foreign & domestic policy and the right-left political games that are based on the lies of 9/11 ("... because we were attacked on 9/11(?)...") and that seem to scapegoat another [country, ethnicity, religion]. If there is a God in heaven who rewards us according to our merits, then it may depend on us passing the Reframed 9/11 Litmus Test.

Here are some quick links to help you navigate the 9/11 Special.

• 9/11 Right is Radical
• 9/11 News Summary
• Reframing the 9/11 Litmus Test
• Nine-One-One: CGI and Favored Patsies
• 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue (9 Parts)
• 9/11 How
• 9/11 Why
• 9/11 Who
• 9/11 What

9/11 Right is Radical

Right is Radical.

When these three words were written in ~1865 by Mary Baker Eddy, the definition of "radical" was more along the lines of "indivisible root" or "kernel":

• (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit
• arising from or going to the root or source

Before even the time of my youth (1970's), "radical" took on the more commonly used meaning of revolutionary, extremist, or beyond the norm. However, beyond the norm does not make it wrong.

The word "right" is the opposite of wrong:

• correct: free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
• in conformance with justice or law or morality
• precisely, exactly
• correct in opinion or judgment
• properly

The truth about 9/11 has a distinctive "right is radical" nature.

To look at the 9/11 root, source, evidence, and cover-up with an open-mind using math and science can lead to (correct) opinions or judgments that are beyond the norm of the propaganda that the government through fawning corporate media has been spreading & defending and that non-questioning sheeple have been spoon-fed into believing. Of course, because that 9/11 norm was heavily manipulated and scripted to get a specific public knee-jerk reaction. Being right and conforming to fact or truth about 9/11 are revolutionary and extremist. And we know this because two of the conspirators (government and corporate media) have been covering for their 9/11 crimes this whole time (9 years) by labeling such views as nutty, looney, and crazy.

The three "right is radical" take-away points from this 9/11 essay are:

• 9/11 was thorough and redundant, and included missiles and pre-planted explosives.
• Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) was employed to fool us in most of 9/11 footage replayed ad nausem by the corporate media. Go to YouTube and search for "September Clues."
• 9/11 was a nuclear event, a line that few cross, because the lie of 9/11 can be proven without it.

9/11 News Summary

Bruecke Notes: The 9/11 Truth movement has a lot of "thus far and no further" positioning, particularly when it comes to rabbit holes like a nuclear 9/11 and CGI (no commercial planes). That is understandable, particularly when the threats of crossing some line can be draconian. Moreover, the lie of 9/11 can be proven without going down any rabbit holes. In fact, the lie of 9/11 is fully exposed with high school physics. For those of you who are suffering from 9/11 PTSD whereby diving into a rabbit hole instills too much fear, this summary piece does an excellent job of taking you "thus far and no further" to a line that proves 9/11 was a lie.

9-11 News Summary
Major media articles on 9-11 raise questions

"It's almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at the FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened."
  -- Time magazine article quoting John Farmer, Senior Council to the 9/11 Commission

Dear friends,

Did you know that literally hundreds of respected government officials, professors, and 9/11 survivors and family members have stated there was a major cover-up around 9/11? Did you know that over 1,000 architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation into the collapse of the buildings on 9/11? And did you know about the media articles? The below excerpts from eye-opening news articles published on highly respected major media websites raise serious questions about what those in key positions in the U.S. government really knew about 9/11 and who was behind the attacks.

Though this information may be disturbing to read, consider that the more well informed we are, the more effectively we can work together to build a brighter future. By reviewing these articles, verifying them using the links provided, and then spreading the word, you can make a significant difference in helping to make our world a better place to live for all of us. And don't miss the "What you can do" box at the end which provides excellent links to further educate yourself and to spread the word. Thanks for caring, and have a good day.

With best wishes,
Fred Burks for PEERS and the WantToKnow.info Team

FEMA Photographer - Complete WTC Photos

Bruecke Notes: These are vastly important pictures to look at. These pictures make clear how extensive the demolition of the WTC complex was.

FEMA Photographer Kurt Sonnenfeld - Complete WTC Photos

As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld, was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since.

This video provides a look at all of the recently released photos, in one easy-to-play video slide show. The video has been prepared with minimal compression, and will look best when viewed at full screen.

All of the recently released photos are included, in exact numerical order, of Mr. Sonnenfeld's release. 

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread493263/pg1

http://media.abovetopsecret.com/media/3874/FEMA_Photographer_Kurt_Sonnenfeld_-_Complete_WTC_Photos/

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Solving 9/11 - The Deception That Changed The World

By Christopher Bollyn
May 17, 2010
Solving 9/11 - The Deception That Changed The World is available as a PDF file of about 265 pages.  Click on the title to read or download the book as a PDF file.

Preface

"We Are Not Afraid"

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- President John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962 

Eight years have passed since the terror atrocities of September 11, 2001, heinous false-flag terror crimes which took the lives of thousands of innocent people and led to drastic changes in the United States and around the world. 

Although the terror attacks have yet to be properly investigated and prosecuted by the federal government, we now have scientific evidence that proves that the official explanation is nothing but a pack of lies, a massive deception foisted on the public by corrupt government officials and the controlled media.  Most significantly, this deception was promoted by officials and media owners who knew it to be false.  The U.S. Department of Justice, for example, oversaw the destruction of many tons of structural steel - crucial evidence from the crime scenes.

On one hand, the government and media have intentionally pushed a fabrication that a band of Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, causing the complete destruction and pulverization of two 110-story towers and a 47-story building in lower Manhattan.  Using this deception, the federal government and its agents have created a police state in the United States and forced Americans and other Western nations to participate in an utterly fraudulent "War on Terror," waging illegal wars of aggression and occupation in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.  Untold thousands have died in these illegal wars of aggression.

On the other hand, we have scientific evidence that the Twin Towers were blown up with an advanced form of super-thermite, chips of which were found in five different samples of the dust from the demolished towers by Dr. Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University.  This crucial discovery, published as a peer-reviewed paper in March 2009 with other scientists, completely disproves the official version that the Twin Towers fell as a result of fires caused by the plane crashes.  This discovery also explains the explosive destruction and pulverization of the immense steel-frame and concrete buildings.  As Professor Jones says, "The data doesn't lie."

9/11 Truth is Still the Issue (9 Parts)

Corbett Report

12:53 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 1

9:18 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 2

14:46 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 3

14:58 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 4

9:21 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 5

12:37 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 6

8:42 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 7

12:33 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 8

15:02 9/11 Truth is Still the Issue - part 9

7:42 9/11 Truth Is Still The Issue!

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Nine-One-One: CGI and Favored Patsies

9/11 Again?

Eye-balls roll, heads shake, and scowls can barely be suppressed when certain topics are brought up: the assassination of JFK, RFK, MLK, ...; Gulf of Tonkin; Iran-Contra; Oklahoma City; 9/11.

Proclaiming 9/11 to be an inside job does little to engender meaningful consideration by those fully indoctrinated by red, white, and blue patriotism, "USA #1" cheerleading, and American Christian manifest destiny, thusly justifying all actions of a nation believed to be closest to Christ and perfection on the planet. The expression of non-sanctioned views becomes a red flag about who might be off (or on) medication and that future discourse should probably be avoided.

The lack of serious consideration and contemplation about 9/11 has two important roots in modern society: media over-saturation and individual powerlessness.

Even before TV remotes could control many pieces of media electronics and hundreds of channels, humans adapted to modern marketing by scanning passed newspaper ads, multi-tasking at commercials, and scrolling over web ads. Ignoring the noise is what we've been trained to do. This, combined with 24/7 lowest-common-denominator titilating content, has turned us into thrill seeking channel-surfers with very short attention spans. The selections overwhelm us, and weighty matters, not having the same thrill factor, are easy to tune-out.

When due attention is paid to serious topics, what can one individual do to help arm the masses with knowledge and understanding? Compared to corporate media, the resources are lacking to cut through the hyped distractions and communicate another message that might be more challenging to fathom but closer to the truth.

Media over-saturation and individual powerlessness are beyond the scope of this essay to solve. They are mentioned, because they were two enabling tools of the 9/11 fraud.

Red Pill, Blue Pill: Were there even commercial planes?

False Flag Terrorism

http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag

"False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people. The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia defines it:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in peace-time; for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.

The term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy. Because the enemy's flag was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, it was called a "false flag" attack.

There are many examples of false flag attacks throughout history. For example, it is widely known that the Nazis, in Operation Himmler, faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. And it has now been persuasively argued — as shown, for example, in this History Channel video — that Nazis set fire to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and blamed that fire on others. The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified Hitler's seizure of power and suspension of liberties.

http://www.septemberclues.info/power_of_imagery.htm

Bruecke Note: As far as 9/11 rabbit holes go, the September Clues one goes the deepest. Despite the legions of disinformation that try to debunk its premise, I've never really seen any that individually or collectively achieve that goal of discrediting the "no plane" argument. Occam Razor -- the simplest explanation -- is regularly thrown at 9/11 Truthers to dissuade curious readers from going into the "no plane" argument. While this article is not September Clues 1-9 or A-H [highly recommended], the website from whence this article comes to my understanding is associated with them and adds even more twists to the rabbit hole. For me, the fact that different versions of the same scene exist and that the same building perspective images were manipulated and re-used in other CGI shots, tells me that control of the media was indeed in effect, as the military rules for any invasion or PYSOP would dictate. This is Occam Razor no-duh, and one of the main reasons for this media control was that 9/11 was a nuclear event, its own rabbit hole but also Occam Razor no-duh in explaining the massive energy sinks in the towers' demolition, the pulverization of content, the vaporization of victims, and the inextinguishable fires that burned for months under the rubble after 9/11.


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The Power Of Imagery

http://www.septemberclues.info/power_of_imagery.htm

Television is - and has always been - a Weapon of Mass Distraction.
The power of TV-imagery was the driving force behind the 9/11 deception.

Whenever a major news event is reported by the mainstream media, it will invariably be illustrated with photographs or videos in order to convey to the public some visual impressions of the event. Undeniably, the imagery connected with any given news story enhances our emotional relation to it. The way we relate to news imagery has an almost hypnotic effect on our psyche: we have come to consider the visuals of any given news story as proof of that news story’s authenticity. This is truly a ‘weak spot’ of our brains’ readiness for critical-thinking. Thus follows, unfortunately, that to challenge the authenticity of a catastrophic event shown on Live TV is way beyond what most people are willing to contemplate. However, the time has come for everyone to call television by its most appropriate, military-sounding name: "Weapon of Mass Distraction".



The 9/11 psyop relied foremostly on that ‘weak spot’ of ours. We all fell for the images we saw on TV at the time – understandably so, as the sheer horror of the proposed imagery generated a wall of outrage and fear – thick enough to discourage any critical review of it. In hindsight, we can only wonder why so few questioned the absurd TV coverage proposed by all the major networks. The picture at left shows a moment (at 8:59AM) of the four synchronized TV broadcasts of ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: yet another indication that the 9/11 TV "LIVE" broadcasts were managed by one single, centralized studio. (see my audio analysis in September Clues E)