Posts Tagged ‘thinking’

A pandemic of fallacious thinking and civic irresponsibility: The precarious state of reason

Given that life and death literally rest on the validity of the “arguments”—if they are even worthy of the term–that have been bandied about in favor of not getting vaccinated for Covid19, they deserve the most intense scrutiny we can muster. Each is bad enough in itself, but taken together, they reinforce one another. They bunch together […]

Facebook To Provide Pop-Up Warning When Your Friends Begin Thinking For Themselves

Facebook To Provide Pop-Up Warning When Your Friends Begin Thinking For Themselves MENLO PARK, CA—Facebook has introduced a new feature that will warn you when one of your friends is sharing free and independent thoughts on its network. Should you encounter an unapproved opinion, Facebook will provide a pop-up warning letting you know that if […]

California Public Schools Ban Teaching Of Critical Thinking

SACRAMENTO, CA—As more and more states announce bans on critical race theory, California is pushing the other direction, and has just passed a ban on teaching any kind of critical thinking in public schools. “This dangerous ‘critical thinking theory’ must be stopped,” said Governor Newsom sternly as he signed the ban into law. “It’s infecting […]

UK Govt Is ‘Absolutely Thinking’ About Mandatory Covid Vaccines For Health Workers

The British government is “absolutely thinking about” making Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for healthcare workers vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi told Sky News. The government’s preparations to roll out mandatory vaccinations for healthcare staff was first reported in March. Maybe they should follow these healthcare workers in Houston, Texas who have filed a lawsuit against their employer […]

Two Months After Biden Blasted ‘Neanderthal Thinking,’ Texas Reports ZERO COVID Deaths

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott elicited criticism from Dr. Fauci and a host of Democrats when he decided to drop all COVID-19-linked restrictions in the Lone Star State back in March. Now, as states across the country are falling in line with President Biden’s aggressive new mask guidance (clearly intended to encourage more holdouts to accept […]

McWhorter: Black People Don’t Default to Thinking We’re ‘Pathetic’ Like ‘White Fragility’ – Kendi ‘Is Not the General Black View’

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Columbia University Professor and author John McWhorter objected to books like “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo and “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi being pushed “as the black view” when they aren’t. McWhorter argued that “White Fragility” makes black people look like “silly babies” and it’s […]

Report: People Have Been Thinking All White Men Are Terrible But It Turns Out It’s Just Steve

Report: People Have Been Thinking All White Men Are Terrible But It Turns Out It’s Just Steve U.S.—There has been a growing anti-racist movement against whiteness and white males, identifying them as a scourge on society and the basis for all our problems. But now many have begun to realize that there is in fact […]

J Street’s magical thinking

I spent the last two days watching the J Street conference and the liberal pro-Israel lobby group’s message was very consistent: We are a “movement” for reviving the two state solution so as to preserve Israel as the Jewish state, and our movement has political clout and it includes the entire Democratic Party from pro-Israel […]

Thinking Beyond The Great Reset To The Unthinkable

By Kevin Smith Source Has anyone got a conspiracy theory I can borrow, mine have all come true? God Save Us From Celebrities I guess I’m not unique in disliking most modern-day celebrities. I hate their tendency for identity politics and virtual signaling while at the same time demonstrating breath-taking hypocrisy, aculture which has filtered […]

Quick-Thinking Police Officer Uses Narcan to Save Toddler Who ‘Got Ahold of Some Fentanyl’ and Overdosed

A California police officer was in the right place at the right time when a frantic mother flagged down his patrol car. Her unresponsive toddler had been exposed to the opiate fentanyl. Officer Aaron Khamosh managed to revive the child using Narcan, a drug developed to reverse the effects of an opiate overdose. In a […]

What was David Cameron thinking when he holidayed with Bin Salman post-Khashoggi murder?

Sensationally, it has emerged that former British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a desert camping holiday with Mohammed Bin Salman despite Western intelligence agencies naming the Saudi Crown Prince as being the man who ordered the death of dissident Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018. The jaunt in the Saudi desert happened […]

Dr. Rabbi Wayne Allen: Thinking about Good and Evil

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Clubhouse, Harry Potter, and the Problem With Magical Thinking

In the debate over Israel in America, many on the left (of which I am a proud member) are completely misguided. And the new frontier of this debate is shaping up to be the sticky new social network Clubhouse. Last week I was invited to join Clubhouse, an audio drop in app where you can […]

Are We Changed Forever Into a Higher Thinking Species?

February 12th, 2021 By Robert Puzey Guest Writer for Wake Up World What will the world be like after the pandemic? How will we feel? It will seem like coming out of our bunkers from a nuclear war and walking on the ashen white landscape that was once our world. We will fear each other […]

Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Power of Delusional Thinking

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The Magical Thinking Of Reformism

Reformism Isn’t Liberation, It’s Counterinsurgency. You can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself. This article is part of Abolition for the People, a series brought to you by a partnership between Kaepernick Publishing and LEVEL, a Medium publication for and about the lives of Black and Brown men. The series, which comprises 30 essays […]

Anthology compiles 70 ways of (anxiously) thinking about Jewish past and future

NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK — In a speech in 2013, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, declared he was living in a “Golden Age of the Jewish people,” in which anti-Semitism was down, Israel was a stable democracy and Jewish communities and creativity were flourishing more than “at almost any other […]

Lawmaker from Gantz’s party: More ‘thinking of quitting Netanyahu government’

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The 2 Words That Can Change Your Way of Thinking

What’s one way to change your way of thinking in this crazy parenting life? Even before your eyes open, your mind is on “step on it” mode. Pack lunch: ham sandwiches, baby carrots, and raisins, times two. Drop kids off at school. Next stop: diapers from Target (don’t forget the gift for the baby shower). […]

Watching The Hawks – A Torturers Confirmation & Free-Thinking DNC-Style

Watching The Hawks – A Torturers Confirmation & Free-Thinking DNC-Style Watching The Hawksyoutube.com Drama and double-speak unfold freely at CIA nominee Gina Haspels Senate confirmation. Democrats across the nation explore innovative methods of forcing candidates into obedience to the party. The Big Picture host Holland Cooke discusses the war between hedge funds and the newspapers […]

Staged Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria? Why We need Critical Thinking

Next Story I have 20 years experience teaching critical thinking. Today I teach critical thinking at one of the most prestigious universities in the UK, and the rest of the time I travel, teaching critical thinking to students in poor and rich countries around the world. I do this because I believe understanding how to identify fact from fiction is […]

Bill Maher on How Every Generation Could Be Called the “What Were You Thinking?” Generation. Cell Phones in Pockets Included In Current List of Senseless Behavior.

By B.N. Frank On April 13, 2018 Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), Bill provides the audience with a long list of what was once considered normal that now makes us ask “What were we thinking?”  At the 4:30 mark, he stated, You are tolerating things right now that will make you cringe […]

Police shot at a man 20 times in his own yard, thinking he had a gun. It was an iPhone.

Police say they saw an object in Stephan Clark’s hand before they fired 20 bullets that killed him in his back yard Sunday night in Sacramento, a disturbing moment that was made public through body camera footage released Wednesday night. The two officers were responding to a 911 call about a man breaking vehicle windows when they encountered, then killed, Clark, […]

How They Do It– ‘Don’t Make the Mistake of Thinking Auschwitz Is just mere History’

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Thinking Freedom: Achieving The Impossible Collectively

This interview with Michael Neocosmos is included in the Transnational Institute’s latest State of Power report, which examines today’s social movements, their potential to build counter-power, and how we can best resist injustice as well as lay grounds for long-term transformation. How would you define counter-power? How does it relate to emancipatory politics? I don’t think we […]

THIS IS WHY ROBOTS WILL TURN ON HUMANS; ITS PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU’RE THINKING!!!

This Is Atlas, The Next Generation ROBOT DESCRIPTION: A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, […]

Robert Mueller: Wishful thinking or coup d’etat?

     “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser men so full of doubts.” – Bertrand Russell In a time of such intense manipulation and social programming, it is almost irresponsible to allow one’s hope to dictate their belief. As is the case with […]

IRGC Commander: US not even thinking of using force against Iran

FNA- Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami underlined Iran’s undeniable power in the region, noting that Washington no more speaks of the military option against Tehran. “The US officials don’t even think of the military option anymore and the US knows that if the capacities of Jihad are […]

Universal Basic Income: Visionary or Wishful Thinking?

By Susan Boskey Universal Basic Income, also known as UBI, social credit and Basic Income Guarantee, is not a new concept. However, it is being looked at newly by the State of Hawaii as a solution to how AI (artificial intelligence) is likely to take over many of their jobs. Having lived in […]

Thinking the Unthinkable: “Was Margaret Hassan Sacrificed” by the British Government?

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