Even if the Bee could explain to the Fly why pollen is better than poop, the fly would not understand.
Who You Are Trying To Explain Things To?
Even if the Bee could explain to the Fly why pollen is better than poop, the fly would not understand.
Life Beyond Facebook
By Stephen Reid
Exactly one year ago I decided to pull the pin on facebook. Cold turkey. Gone. I made the decision not knowing what to expect or even if I would be able to commit to abandoning what is such a significant part of modern society. Did I crumble under the pressure, cave in and come crawling back?
No. Not even close. A year ago I deactivated my facebook account and today I deleted it. Here’s why.
The other side
In my initial reflection of going offline, I noted how anticlimactic it all was. I was expecting it to be difficult to give up a decade long habit or that I would be ostracised from society. Neither happened. Likewise, I expected to have all of this extra free time but I’m still yet to feel this is the case.
They say you never really get rid of an addiction, that it is replaced with another. In my case, I suppose I have replaced the time spent on Facebook with YouTube. While that sounds like a potentially worse habit to take up, what with the number of cat videos and the like, I use YouTube as a resource rather than a crutch.
Upsides
My main grievance with Facebook was that I was aware that I was essentially wasting time using it, time that I could’ve been spending improving my life. My morning routine used to be to scroll through my newsfeed as I drank coffee. Now it’s watching videos on topics that relate to my hobbies, interests, and work (whilst drinking coffee!). I’m a better guitarist now after watching musicians speak at workshops and interviews. I’m a better teacher after watching tutorials and demonstrations. I’m a better informed technology enthusiast from watching reviews.
Downsides
What is annoying though is how small businesses often use a facebook page instead of a website. Facebook is pretty aggressive with asking you to sign up if you wish to use the site so they (understandably) make it annoying for ‘outsiders’ to browse.
It’s also annoyingly easy to reactivate your facebook account. I accidentally reactivated my account when signing into Shazam to find the name of a song I’d captured months ago.
The wrap up
That’s about it really. Since giving up facebook I haven’t felt like I’ve lost anything or am missing out; if anything I know more about the things I’m interested in. I feel like I’m making better use of my time and don’t have the anxiety of managing a second life in the digital space where you are bombarded with people’s incessant opinions and narcissism.
As expected, it’s not easy to delete a facebook account. Even after you confirm you want to delete it, if you log back in within 14 days it cancels your request. Thankfully I’m not the first person to do this and there are instructions on how to do it.
So if you are considering doing your mental health a favour by experiencing life without the demands of a social platform designed to keep you using it, rest assured that it is not only easy but surprisingly rewarding.
Goodbye facebook.
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“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels. Among psychologists something like this known as the “illusion of truth” effect.
Lord Rothschild: My Family Created Israel
Lord Jacob Rothschild had admitted that his family were ‘crucial’ in the creation of Israel, in a Times of Israel interview.
The 80-year-old Rothschild said in a recent interview that his ancestors “helped pave the way for the creation of Israel,” forcing the British government to sign the Balfour Declaration in 1917.
The Rothschilds are commonly believed to have engineered WWI and waited until 1917 when Britain showed signs of trouble. The Zionist family then promised the British Government that they could convince the US to enter the war and ensure Britain’s victory over Germany on the basis that the British government handed control of Palestine to the Zionists.
Thus the Balfour Declaration was created, which is an official letter from the British Government Foreign Secretary James Balfour to Baron Rothschild.
It states that:
“His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object.”
Uprooted Palestinians reports:
During a television interview, the Times of Israel reports that Balfour revealed for the first time the role of his cousin Dorothy de Rothschild.
Rothschild described Dorothy, who was in her teens at the time, as “devoted to Israel,” and said: ‘What she did, which was crucially important.’”
Rothschild said that Dorothy connected Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann to the British establishment. Dorothy “told Weizmann how to integrate, how to insert himself into British establishment life, which he learned very quickly.”
Rothschild said that the way the declaration was procured was extraordinary. “It was the most incredible piece of opportunism.”
“[Weizmann] gets to Balfour,” Rothschild described, “and unbelievably, he persuades Lord Balfour, and Lloyd George, the prime minister, and most of the ministers, that this idea of a national home for Jews should be allowed to take place. I mean it’s so, so unlikely.”
The interview was was conducted by former Israeli ambassador Daniel Taub as part of the Balfour 100 project. Taub interviewed Rothschild at Waddeston Manor in Buckinghamshire, a manor bequeathed to the nation by the Rothschild family in 1957, where the Declaration is kept.
According to Ambassador Taub, the declaration “changed the course of history for the Middle East.”
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In 2018 The US Gov’t Spent Nearly $2 Billion a Day — Solely on WAR
December 16, 2017
The price tag on the latest National Defense Authorization Act is $700 billion, which will cost American taxpayers nearly $2 billion every day in 2018.
While the United States Congress has struggled to pass legislation governing taxes and healthcare, it had no problem uniting on the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) —a bill that will ensure the U.S. continues to wage wars around the world, and that promises taxpayers will cover its costly expenses.
The price tag on the latest NDAA is a massive $700 billion, which means that for every day in 2018, American taxpayers will spend nearly $2 billion on war.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, claimed that by signing the NDAA into law, Trump “signed a bill that will make America safer.” He also noted one important fact—both Democrats and Republicans showed overwhelming support.
“This defense bill authorizes money for our troops, for our national defense and homeland security, and to make sure America has the best technology in the world to protect ourselves,” McCarthy said. “This bill passed the House 356 to 70, including more than half of the Democratic caucus. It passed the Senate by voice vote—not a single Democrat opposed it.”
Before signing the legislation, Trump referenced an attempted attack in New York City, where a man detonated a crudely-made pipe bomb in a subway station the day before. While the man who made the device was the only one injured, Trump used it as another example of why Americans should funnel billions of tax dollars into “keeping America safe.”
“I want to address the terrorist attack that took place yesterday in New York City,” Trump said, claiming that “there have now been two terrorist attacks in New York City in recent weeks carried out by foreign nationals, here on green cards.”
Trump also specifically thanked Sen. John McCain for his contributions to the bill. The Republican from Arizona has been in office for 30 years, and has a reputation as a staunch supporter of war.
“Brand-new, beautiful equipment is on its way—the best you’ve ever had by far. We make the best in the world, and you’re going to have it,” Trump bragged in true Trump-fashion. He then concluded by saying, “I won’t be showing all of this to everybody, believe it or not. That’s a lot of pages. That is a lot of pages.”
The 2018 NDAA approves $634 billion for the Pentagon. This was done despite the fact that a recent report on the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, found that between the two departments, they have lost over $21 trillion in the last 17 years—enough money to pay back the U.S. National Debt.
Nearly $66 billion will be allocated for the Overseas Contingency Operations fund, which ensures that the U.S. will continue to fuel proxy wars in foreign nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
In addition to $705 million for missile defense programs the U.S. is developing with Israel, the legislation includes more than $12 billion for the Missile Defense Agency. Trump mentioned U.S. missile defense capabilities in his statement, claiming the massive budget will help the U.S. “continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in North Korea.”
While advocates for the $700-billion NDAA claim that it will help to keep Americans safe, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul has noted that the more time the U.S. spends overthrowing governments and creating proxy wars in foreign countries, the more it should be worried about “blowback” from its reckless foreign poly.
“If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem,” Paul said. “They don’t come here to attack us because we’re rich and we’re free. They come and they attack us because we’re over there. I mean, what would we think if we were—if other foreign countries were doing that to us?“
It should be noted that even when U.S. defense spending was under $600 billion in 2014, it was still more than the amount spent by the next seven countries—China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, United Kingdom, India and Germany—combined.
About the author: Rachel Blevins is a Texas-based journalist who aspires to break the left/right paradigm in media and politics by pursuing truth and questioning existing narratives. Follow Rachel on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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A list of ways our society is already like Pixar’s dystopia in WALL·E
It’s been eight years since the film about the lonely robot was made and already its vison of the future is coming true
By Amelia Tait
It’s been 13 years since the film about the lonely robot was made and already its vison of the future is coming true.
Often it’s the films that don’t try to predict the future that end up doing so. We don’t have Back to the Future’s self-drying jacket or “Jaws 19”, but we do have Airplane II’s full-body scanners and The Simpsons’ presidential-candidate-Donald-Trump. Pixar’s 2008 hit animated film WALL·E falls somewhere in between. The movie acted as more of a warning than a prediction – reminding us all to pick up our rubbish and go for a jog lest we end up fat (and for some reason, sockless) blobs on a collosal spaceship – but already many of its dystopian visions have come true.
And guys, it’s only 2016. Eight years after the movie was made and 789 years before it was set, we are living in Pixar’s future (except, again, for the socks thing). Here’s how.
The Earth is a giant landfill
Thought this was going to be a fun read, did you? Saw a cartoon robot and thought we’d all be having a laugh? Wrong. Every year humans produce 2.12 billion tonnes of waste, with the majority of it going into landfills, or worse, the ocean. Although UK recyling rates have risen steadily, countries like Romania still send 99% of their waste to landfills. America’s largest landfill, Puente Hills, is over 150 metres tall and covers 700 acres.
dverts are all around us
Although it’s hard to uncover the exact number of adverts we’re exposed to a day, experts have traditionally guessed at anything from 300 to 5,000. Online advertising only excacerbates this, as in 2012 Google revealed they had served an average of 29,741,270,774 ad impressions a day.
Especially right in front of our faces
WALL·E’s floating holographic screens aren’t common, but they do exist. What is exceptionally common, however, are adverts plastered on our screens and in particular all over our means of communication. The number of advertisers on Facebook tripled from one million in 2013 to three million today, whereas Skype users are surrounded by adverts in much the same way as in the picture above.
We’re expected to work for longer and longer
Despite the “fat is bad” theme underlying everything in WALL·E, our enormous future selves seem to live for a very long time. This wall of past captains shows that humans in WALL·E are expected to work for over a hundred years. Sound familiar? Although the state pension age was 65 for men and 60 for women for many years, from 2020 both genders will be expected to work until 66 and retirement age will adjust for life expectancy after that.
None of us are having sex
A study released last month shocked the world when it revealed millenials are barely having any sex. Although sex is unsurprisingly not a key theme in WALL·E, a titilating scene where two humans touch shows that bodily contact is highly uncommon.
But we love robots in bras
One in five Britons would happily have sex with a robot, although there is no word yet on whether they saw this picture before being asked.
Drivable chairs are now a thing
A quiet word with all inventors out there: if you see something in a dystopian film, maybe don’t make it. Unfortunately, Toyota didn’t get this message as in 2012 they debuted their drivable chair, or rather, sorry, “Personal Mobility Concept”.
You can totally get one of these
Which is a plus, at least. Here you go.
Lunch in a cup is becoming more popular
No, we’re not talking about your cheeky lunchtime pint. Future food is already here, with Huel, a powdered food replacement, gaining popularity this year. The brand claim to have over 40,000 customers in over 50 countries.
Robots can heal themselves
A study in 2015 revealed that certain damaged robots could fix themselves and adapt to their injuries.
This man is called John
It’s comforting to know that no matter how far humanity falls, there will always be men called John.
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