Check Your Assumptions

Readers of 9/11-related research websites would have been able to pull their money out of the stock market before it crashed. A healthy alternative to mainstream media has arisen on the web, challenging readers to spend more time discerning the validity of the information they intake.

Too often the most important knowledge is uncommon and ridiculed. Most recently the terms du jour have been "wacky conspiracy theories". Movies like Idiocracy or Wall-E poked fun at this phenomena. At one point the idea that Iraq was not harboring WMDs was "wacky conspiracy theory", as was the idea that our economy would enter a recession or worse

We cannot fix our problems if we are not aware of them or do now acknowledge them. We assume too often that 'other people' are taking care of things, that government has our best interest at heart and that the media is driven more by journalism than by business.

Despite relevations that prove the mainstream viewpoint of the past was erroneous, we do not change. We consistently assume that the societal machine we are building is more and more astute. Instead, it simply has more channels, meaning most people are just more demanding of their entertainment in their ever-busier schedules.

Iraq will be largest spending bill in history

Joint Chiefs chairman calls fiscal calamity a bigger threat than any war: ""The scope of it is, to me, mind-boggling"

"Key members of Congress were stunned to hear Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson say on Sept. 18 in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill that the country was “days away” from a complete financial meltdown—one that could lead to Depression-like runs on banks, widespread violence and ultimately even to a possible declaration of martial law. It was a vision of Armageddon, but, of course, 10 days later, the House rejected a Wall Street bailout package sent over by Paulson, only to pass one in a more limited form—the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act—a week later that gave Paulson less power and only half the money he wanted. Meanwhile, the financial system did not collapse and while a few banks were failing, there were no runs on them, and martial law wasn’t invoked."

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As Americans were getting laid off, banks sought government approval for foreign workers to fill their shoes, in addition to the taxpayer bailout.

Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases.

"Davos is really a key place to launch an instant tool like this," Ms Zuckerberg said. "It's beneficial for everyone to see us as a global community of 150m users. The vast majority are not just college students in the US talking about things in their bedrooms. We are showing how we are a serious and insightful community."

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Comments:Your Job
Snap out of it, if you haven't already. As a people we want to fit into our larger society but what say do we have on that larger society? Question your assumptions. Don't be afraid to stand against the grain. At the very least, it could save you a lot of money.