Posted By Director on January 6, 2008
Glassbooth at http://glassbooth.org offers a quiz to help you select the presidential candidate to support by matching your positions on the issues with his. NWOU took the quiz and discovered we were leaning to the wrong candidate. We conclude from this exercise that position matching is only part of the process of deciding which candidate to support. Personal qualities, news coverage, particular events, and other bits of data have pushed us to an emotion-based opinion that resists change. NWOU searches for information that contradicts our opinions and likes to look at all sides but recognizes that objectivity is a myth and emotion plays a big role in opinion formation. Perhaps we should become more aware of exactly which emotional appeals succeed in shaping our opinions. NWOU is interested in opinion formation because the information we researched in The Hidden Masters changed our view of history, religion, and politics. We also subscribe to the idea that one’s worldview shapes one’s opinions, even to the extent of ignoring any facts that conflict with one’s basic worldview. And yet, opinions do change. The process of opinion change remains mysterious to us and we welcome comments from anyone with superior knowledge. Meanwhile, take the Glassbooth test and ask yourself why you support a candidate if he isn’t the best match for you on the issues alone.
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Posted By Director on January 2, 2008
Deborah Brewster in the Financial Times reports the UN is going to advertise to children using superheroes to help the UN save the planet. I wonder if the UN will also give the kids a list of wars they started or details on their population control programs? http://d2cft.volantis.net/d2c/0.0?feed-article-id=a9d5f5ee-b3ff-11dc-a6df-0000779fd2ac
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Posted By Director on December 30, 2007
Fjordman reports on the cultural tensions Moslem immigration has introduced to Sweden. The New York Times and Sweden: The Dark Side of Paradise reports that children are being given the right to vote in Sweden and claims that cultural tensions are covered over by massive media censorship. Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing? reports on deliberate mistranslations of Islamic speeches by the Swedish media and the alarming rise in gang rapes. http://www.faithfreedom.org/Author/Fjordman.htm
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Posted By Director on December 30, 2007
If we manage to turn our politics away from globalism toward localism, Wendell Barry will have something to say to us. Dan Simmons has a long piece on Barry in his August 2007 message, http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm. Click on the “past messages” link at the top right of that page to browse through Dan’s other messages.
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Posted By Director on December 30, 2007
Techcentralstation has a brief article by Marian Tupy on the progress of the Lisbon treaty proclaiming a new EU constitution, http://tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=122107C
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Posted By Director on December 27, 2007
The Muckraker Report is a left-wing blog linked with the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Nation, http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org. We would like readers of the Forum to be aware of two articles from The Muckraker, FBI Says No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html and Listen Up, Eye Rollers! Part I by Deanna Spingola, http://muckrakerreport.com/id567.html. Spingola’s article offers a brief history of U.S. government propaganda activities in the twentieth century and charges the U.S. government with terrorism against civilian populations and complicity in genocide. These folks seem to studiously avoid mentioning the same policies carried out by left-wing governments, so take their bias into account when evaluating this site. When you manage to overcome the bias of the internationalist Right, avoid being taken in by the lies of the Left. We are interested in Muckraker’s support for Ron Paul as a possible new coalition that could overcome the propaganda and globalist machinations of both parties. Are we dreaming a pipe dream? We want to learn more about Ron Paul and watch this movement take form before offering NWOU’s support. NWOU has a difficult time believing that folks from both the International Left and the International Right can remove their blinkers and cooperate. And yet, that is what NWOU is all about.
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