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Where's Ukraine?
Only one out of six Americans could correctly locate Ukraine on a map of the world, but perhaps even more disconcerting, as The Washington Post reports, the farther their guesses were from Ukraine's actual location, the more they wanted the US to intervene with military force...
As The Washington Post reports,
Accuracy varies across demographic groups. In general, younger Americans tended to provide more accurate responses than their older counterparts: 27 percent of 18-24 year olds correctly identified Ukraine, compared with 14 percent of 65+ year-olds. Men tended to do better than women, with 20 percent of men correctly identifying Ukraine and 13 percent of women.
Interestingly, members of military households were no more likely to correctly locate Ukraine (16.1 percent correct) than members of non-military households (16 percent correct), but self-identified independents (29 percent correct) outperformed both Democrats (14 percent correct) and Republicans (15 percent correct). Unsurprisingly, college graduates (21 percent correct) were more likely to know where Ukraine was than non-college graduates (13 percent correct), but even 77 percent of college graduates failed to correctly place Ukraine on a map.
The proportion of college grads who could correctly identify Ukraine is only slightly higher than the proportion of Americans who told Pew that President Obama was Muslim in August 2010.
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The further our respondents thought that Ukraine was from its actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene militarily.
Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force, the greater the threat they saw Russia as posing to U.S. interests, and the more they thought that using force would advance U.S. national security interests; all of these effects are statistically significant at a 95 percent confidence level.
The results are clear, but also somewhat disconcerting:
The less people know about where Ukraine is located on a map, the more they want the U.S. to intervene militarily.
Still unclear.. here's a 2-minute explainer...
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So now that you have come to the conclusion that the Dark Ages have never ended and that the masses are serfs whom are just homesteading on their Lord's eSTATEs (Governments) just what can you do about it?
You are corrrect as it is a living nightmare for the marginalized intellectual. It does get lonely at times when there is nobody to talk with.
Even on ZH there are many whom have not a clue just where the Ukraine is located or whom could even point out the Black Sea if their life depended on it. (It may turn out that it does depend on it but setting that aside...)
Read the post above where Optimator believed that the Ukraine was inbetween Germany and Moscow. Of course Poland was in the path of the Direct Route.
(Of course Hitler wanted to seize the Oil Resources from the Ukranian Steppes as that fuel was needed for his Wehrmacht. That had nothing to do with seizing Moscow. The battle for the Ukraine was the scene of the largest Tank Battle in History, ignorantly unknown.)
Now I am not a Geographer but I damned well know where the Ukraine is.
You are correct. It is a fucking non stop nightmare.
(At least last night's graphic nightmare of experiencing a Tornado with multiple vortices, flying sheet metal and drywall debris, with the Lightning Bolts is preferable to waking up to this. I can paint that picture and I have never been in a tornado in my life. It was weird. It is still in my head. But I will take that nightmare over this one as that nightmare was surreal.)
Fucking ill informed serfs!!! It is so damned absurd. Even with the Internet and all of our "Modern Technologies" we are still in the Dark Ages. There is no excuse as they watch their God Damned Tee Vee Sets instead of READING BOOKS.
Fucking ignorant serfs.
Ah yes the battle of Kharkiv...biggest tank battle ever...epic stuff.
Many Americans think they beat the Nazis/"saved Europe" but if they truly knew the truly mindbogglingly epic scale of the war on the eastern front it might give them some humbling perspective.
Small point...Hitler's southern prong of his 1941 invasion, the southern task group, wasn't heading for Ukrainian oil fields (there aren't any), they were going for the oil rich Caucasus...e.g. Baku, site of the world first commercial oil well. Getting those oilfields was so important that when Barbarossa failed and the Germans reset for another round of invasion in 1942, they ditched any pretense at trying to capture northern Russia and just focussed the new offensive on the southern flank.
Thanks. Your "small point" is large.
The USA would have fared much better by staying out of that war and left it to the Soviets and Russians to fight it out. We'd have still been preeminent after it was over without the unnecessary lost lives, shattered dreams, and expenditures of capital.
"... just what can you do about it?"
Well, Tall Tom, I guess the only thing that I can do is go through the stages of grief, kicking and screaming all the way, because I do not want to accept the conclusion that there is no reasonable hope for the future. I repeat that I mainly get by with maintaining irrational hopes for some series of political miracles. I "know" that is extremely unlikely, but nevertheless, the way that I personally cope with the surrounding social insanities is with my own kind of insanity, desperately attempt to cling to some shred of irrational hope, because I would rather do that, than accept the apparently objective facts, that there is no reasonable basis to have any hope whatsoever.
As far as I can tell, we are totally trapped within vicious spirals of financial frauds, which automatically get worse, faster. The basic system of private banks making the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts HAS driven debt slavery to become debt insanity. There are no mathematically possible ways, within the money-as-debt system, for the USA, nor any other countries with that system, to ever pay its debts, or live up to its promised obligations. There is NO possible better resolution within the currently established systems, but for them to automatically get worse, faster, as that system of debt slavery drives itself through to some eventual series of psychotic breakdowns, due to its numbers becoming such extreme debt insanities, that that system finally collapses into crazy chaos.
The ONLY way that a Century of such debt slavery could runaway, at an exponential rate, to generate debt insanity situations, is that the vast majority of the population were successfully brainwashed to believe in bizarre bullshit, and conditioned to not want to understand the basic social insanities surrounding them, allowing private banks to make the public "money" supply out of nothing as debts.
Any relatively rational and objective assessment of the American democratic republic, which applies pretty well everywhere else too, is that it has already been almost totally destroyed. The vicious spiral of triumphant frauds generating fantastic profits, which enabled even greater financial frauds, has clearly jumped the rails, as anyone who regularly reads Zero Hedge already recognizes all too well. Indeed, in my opinion, the main difference between different Zero Hedge writers and readers is the degree to which they are able to maintain some shreds of irrational hopes for the foreseeable future. (In that context, I observe that the relatively more mainstream and successful people are able to delude themselves more successfully.)
My own psychological "solution" is to be slightly more self-aware of myself maintaining irrational hopes, rather than have no hope left at all. However, my true view is that things are trillions of times worse than we can fully comprehend, and anyone who does not recognize that is merely maintaining their own kinds of irrational hopes for the future, slightly more so that I can, because they manage to be relatively less self-aware of the degree to which they are able to delude themselves that things are not as bad as they really are. (Ironically, the more successful people were at operating within the established systems, the more delusional they were enabled to be about what those systems are actually doing.)
In my view, since money is measurement backed by murder, which system is able to operate through the maximum possible deceits and frauds, with the most successful people within those actual systems being the ones who are best able to be professional liars, and immaculate hypocrites, whose social skills depend upon them deceiving themselves too, in order to even better deceive others, the objective realities of runaway debt slavery being transformed into becoming debt insanity necessarily means that we are headed towards that causing death insanities as the result of our society becoming more and more criminally insane, automatically, every day, as endless financial frauds are able to direct all our economic decisions, while those few who benefit from those frauds therefore become even more able to dominate the funding of the political processes, in order to make sure that there are even bigger lies getting legalized, and backed up with even greater legalized violence.
Step by step, society is more and more controlled by endless and accelerating frauds, whose short-term triumphs have worse and worse longer term consequences accumulating all the while, but which consequences are still able for most people to continue to deliberately ignore in the medium term. Since the overwhelming vast majority of people do NOT think about the deeper meanings about "money" being made out of nothing as debts, and do NOT want to think about that, anyone who bothers to try to seriously understand that social insanity discovers that there is no practical point to having done so, unless one is going to continue to be cynical enough to try to take temporary advantage of that situation, but otherwise, not going to try to do anything to change the basic systems, which have already driven debt slavery to become debt insanities.
In my view, our society is already far too criminally insane to do anything but for that to continue to get worse, faster, until it finally drives itself through some series of psychotic breakdowns, as its systems finally collapse into chaos, due to the paradox of too much success at controlling that society with lies, for too long. In that context, as I said, Tall Tom, my emotional response is to cling to some irrational hopes that we might be able to mitigate the degree of those crazy collapses, and perhaps recover better, sooner, if we understood those events better. However, I actually believe that that is just me merely being insane in my own personal way, by still holding on to irrational hopes, in order to not end up being left with no hope whatsoever ... The final stage of grief is supposed to be acceptance of death. However, I still find that too difficult to do. I still cannot accept the apparently obvious and unavoidable conclusion that our society is suffering from runaway criminal insanities, which are going to cause it to commit collective suicide, due to its irreversible madnesses becoming too self-destructive.
Everyday for thirty years, I have been working on attempting to do something about that in the Canadian context, including having two long court cases against the Canadian government over the laws that control the funding of the political processes, and I currently continue to work on that project through Electoral District Associations. However, after discussing these issues face to face with tens of thousands of different people, from all walks of life, for a few decades, I have been forced to come to the conclusion that there is no reasonable hope whatsoever. Indeed, the kinds of social facts revealed by the public opinion poll in this article are typical regarding every other issue that one examines:
"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage." -- H.L. MenckenAnyone who has seriously attempted to discuss the monetary and taxation systems with the general public discovers that, IN FACT, they are abysmally ignorant, and that the vast majority of them want to stay that way. The most successful politicians make no attempt to fix that problem, but rather, their careers are based on skillfully exploiting that situation, by cynically lying to people who want to be lied to. Therefore, no good grounds for any reasonable hopes for the future exist! The currently established systems of debt slavery, inexorably being driven towards worse and worse debt insanities, which will eventually provoke death insanities, have no realistic, politically practical ways to actually fix. Therefore, I try to maintain some shred of irrational hope, but my most realistic conclusions are the same as yours, Tall Tom: "It is a fucking non stop nightmare."
Isn't it insane when the rational are labled as the insane?
So what we do is to write the requiem of a dying planet and a dying genotype. Perhaps there will be some that survive the cataclysm and learn from our mistakes.
I have written before, many times, that there are no political solutions. I am certain that you have read it.
I do not place my hope on anything in this World. My only hope lies in the World which is to come, in a Heavenly Realm.
Perhaps I am deluded about that (although my Physics and Math seems to pan out on that probability). Perhaps you may agree or may disagree but that is how I cope with it.
That is how I can cope with that which I perceive to be an impossible situation, a conundrum, a predicament with only a consequential dismal outcome.
I have enjoyed what you have wrote countless times. I know that you are sincere and that is an admirable quality You are genuine. Keep writing and exposing the truth.
Thanks, Tall Tom, and similar sentiments back at you too!
Are you sure that is not a fallout map from the first strike option.
it does not matters where it is whats impotent is dat we supports obarm me.
if his monsanto and chevron jewish pardon ners say this is worth goin hot for
who the hell are youse to dissagree.
we have to protect israel we cannot allow another spielberg hollow cause
enlist now you cattle
even if ya have flat feet and are clinically obese
come on
lets roll em
Correction on your spelling, its Hollow Co$t.
Well to be fair we do have a president who believes we have 57 states.
V-K the mofo. You know the drill.
Voight-Kampff ... from Blade Runner?
yes
In short, not many give a fucking shit!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah Palin's fault?
I bet she can see it from the back porch.
Her fault?
Just got through watching Idiocracy. What we have become.
Ukraine, wat oligarks crave, because it's got elektrolights.
I hope this wasn't your first or last time watching it.
Nope, I see it every day I go out into 'murikan society.
How many college grads in that bunch?
Obama works for Putin.
BlackBarry works for a number of peeps, mostly foreign, none havnig America(ns)' best interest in mind! End results being the proof!
I had a kid checking me out at walmart that i've never met. He just started talking out of the blue about how he wanted to go to war with China. I had already ascertained he was a fucking idiot before he said that.
Just to put you on the couch a moment: what is it about you that makes perfectly content simpletons share their geopolitical ignorance with you??
Just curious.
Obviously that clerk at the Wal Mart was not "perfectly content" as he wanted to have the USA go to war with China, was he?
Perhaps you need to watch Fight Club...AND PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to what Tyler Durden has to say.
You will find out that many are not "perfectly content" working for Minimum Wage enslavement when they've been promised the Moon by the Main Stream Media.
Open your eyes and your ears Blind Monkey. We are at the edge of the abyss concerning civility.
I teach those clerks at Wal Mart how to make Hand Grenades using Lithium Ion Batteries, Water, and Automotive Starting Fluid. I refer them to websites as terminalcornucopia.com.
Angry and ignorant clerks with Hand Grenades is like having an army of Monkies with Hand Grenades. Who needs a gun???
I +1'd you on the provisional assumption that you would also arm the fat cows in Wal-Mart on the electric scooters with hand grenades. An army of bovine-americans on electric scooters armed with hand grenades charging the front lines would be awesome. I am putting the image to the mental soundtrack of "Flight of the Valkyries". It's beautiful man, it's beautiful.
Well...Now wouldn't that would be somewhat cinematic? LMAO.
Now I have got that tune in my head. Thanks.
I gotta get a better scriptwriter for my movie! :>D
Why were you helping the Waltons and their bitch Soetoro destroy America?
I think I passed through Ukraine, Missouri once
I live within a couple hours' drive to Moscow.
I ate a bug once.
Edit... Oh sorry, I thought we were confessing stuff.
I drive through Moscow, Tx to see Ms. Estes.
and I took pix of a Moose Cow. Does it count?
I have been to Hell ....... Michigan.
This level of dygenic mind numbing stupidity is how a Kenyan is the president of the US electorate.
but wait there is moar .... he is getting away with destroying a nation, which tens of millions died for so to make it what it was not in the distant past and which offered so many, all they needed - from education to opportunities, so to become the most powerful and wealthiest peeps in the world today, yet, the bastards, not only do not feel obliged in any way to at least preserve, if not improve on the very system. Instead, dismantle it so there is nothing left resembling the old!!! Shame on us for having allowed it. And that is true not just about the kennyan, but a boat load of others .... Reid, Feinsten, Schumer, etc etc
How many politicians had the balls to stand up for this Nation? When Cruz did, he was labeled everything in the book .... by his own party (at least in title/name).
Stupidity is far too light of an adjective.
No wonder criminal politicians keep getting re-elected.
Does Obama know whether the Ukraine is in Asia, like Hawaii?
Yea, it's the 57th state right?
I'm not sure if Obama knows where Ukriane is, but I'm sure he took an InterContinental Train there. I think ManBearPig invented it.
One of the simplest things to understand is geography or how to read a map. Which leads me to think these people have very little elementary knowledge of anything else being taught in school. In my opinion liberals have succeeded in ruining the American educational system. That should be the conclusion from this article but it will not be simply because the media will not portray it as such.
"In my opinion liberals have succeeded in ruining the American educational system."
I would look more to what Rockefeller et al did behind the scenes with their foundations to fundimentally change it over the last 30 years.
Liberals don't have the stick-to-itness that the Rockefeller Foundation has. And more money too.
Many of these foundations Ford, Rockefeller, etc. are very liberal leaning organizations. So I'm not sure of what to make of your thesis because they are one in the same.
I believe that is your distinction.
I don't David Rockefeller, or Rothchilds et al give a Ph@# about how the proles define themselves.
He has been programmed by the MSM into the false paradigm of Conservative/Liberal, Red Team/Blue Team, BULLSHIT.
Many are hopeless and it is really a waste of time attempting to free them from their Mental Chains of enslavement. Maybe he stands a chance. Maybe not.
But even the Elephant who is tied to a pillar with a thin rope will break that rope when the Circus Tent catches fire. He will awaken when it becomes to uncomfortable and his survival is at stake. Hopefully it will not be too late.
Yes you are correct. HE MADE THE DISTINCTION which reveals his state of enslavement.
as well as polluting the gene pool!
Ukraine Yukon Youstan all these places sound the same after awhile.
Its all Obama's fault
Nope ....Bushy's!!! O walks on water! Just ask the MSM.
your education dollars at work...
Meaningless Media Presents: Wheel of Fortune
Empires are financial bubbles, normalized. They exploit resources to create artificial scarcity with artificial crises, and they can only be occupied by people stupid enough to accept the proposition of individual blame for system error; everyone is to blame so no one is to blame, except the outsider, so nothing changes, inside the bubble, which the insiders can’t see, until outside.
The Bay Area Homeland Security Factory is the best-in-breed exporter of natural resources, from the surrounding countryside occupied by State 'public works,' to like-minded global cities. The decay emanating from New York, London and all the other global cities is no accident. The Fed is driving it with margin leverage. Facebook has no product; it's all gravity. Keep up with the Jones, chasing rent inflation with wage deflation.
The Germans are not forging contracts with the Russians again by accident either. Now that America is just another two-bit fascist, all the other fascists are actively challenging it. Funny, how community activists become fascists as they rise through the ranks, and/or get shot.
Look at that chart again. It takes 64 arbitrarily bankrupted workers to feed 8 marginal healthcare workers, to feed the likes of WB. It's a vortex, slicing and dicing the middle class, which willingly entered it, buying a mortgage and thereby giving the bank the ability to print money.
Locally, the real estate mafia prints in both directions, by cleaving the asset and leaving the debt behind with the mortgage holder, driving up rents with the resulting cartel control over local markets. With rent consuming nearly all their income, the herd is driven to the global city, fed with sufficient make-work jobs to motor the circuit.
That's the tourism/service economy; work in the city to move to the country, to lose everything, to move back to the city. Keep the critters moving to spin that wheel. At this point, those 64 bankrupt workers all qualify for welfare, which is why the welfare racket is so powerful and paid so little, to consume its own.
Obama and Brown annex the coastline to drive artificial RE demand over supply, the critters scream for joy because RE price inflation grows, and everyone loses purchasing power. Taxes are raised, living costs are ratcheted with leverage, and real estate agency vacuums them up like flies at the end of season.
Public Housing and Real Estate Agency are one and the same, breeding stupidity with real estate inflation, the wealth effect of home ownership. Home ownership is now an illusion, but buy a Bay Area condo today! Of course complying ‘illegal’ aliens in the zone are granted greater entitlement to reproduce. That’s fair employment and housing, making up the rules as it goes along. In a race to the bottom, why would you expect anything else?
Say what you like; Obama leveraged healthcare and pensions to grow the vortex again. You are entitled to enslave everyone else, and the State may tax any estate at any rate it wants to recover any and all arbitrary costs for service. No doubt Hillary will fix this problem, by telling the middle class that it has bankrupted itself, again, by chasing shiny objects with natural resources.
In the 50s and 60s, females got bored and decided they wanted to do the same stupid sh- males did. That’s what happened and what still passes for liberation today. The females want the benefits of males, the males want the benefits of females, the transsexuals are special, and none want the responsibility of rearing their own children. Whether a 25 year die off is better than a 5 year killing spree depends upon your perspective, whether or not you have anything better to do.
The empire is 20 males, controlled by females, backed by armies of females, each followed by a male, and all depending upon a Pavlov reproduction swap ensuring demographic booms and busts, distributed globally. That’s empire domestication. Don’t get in line expecting something other than stupid. Let civil marriage strangle itself.
“State selective service headquarters have announced that local boards will conduct the 4th registration on April 25, 26, and 27, 1942. The age group for this registration is to be 45 to 65 years.”
“Deputy Del Fiorentino, Lieutenant Naulty, Chief Mayberry and Lieutenant Stafori each had direct contact with the suspect…”
“Round up the usual suspects.”
So...that means you know where Ukraine is on a map?
Since they are not "real dollars" and buying power has erroded, so had the quality of the edumacation, the Edumcation Providers provide, so there !!! "No ticky, no wash" !!! Pay in gold, bitcoin, SF, goats, farm animals, and who knows, they might even stark knowing their asses from a hole in the ground, but not before!!! :)
Not very surprising.
Quarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth, Survey Finds (Feb. 16, 2014)
Remember: we are in heavy "politically correct" environment. No discrimination will be tolerated. If the Earth rotates around the Sun, why can't the Sun rotate around the Earth? Ugh? Even if on the 8th day of every month with 32 days or more! It seems fair to me.
Mexico (and Chile) seem to be among the very very very few not to get marked at least once. Interesting....
As for Alaska, I have been wondering how soon before Putin will point to the Russian rooted population in Alaska, who "need his/their/Russian protection" as a motive to start antagonizing the US(S)A?
He has long been eyeballing that nat resources laiden chunk of land!!! I think he just might make a move in that direction .... IMO.
I wonder if he would have his boys drill in ANWAR?
Ukraine belongs in Alaska. Those pesky Russians stole it when nobody was looking.
Smack dab in the middle of "the shit".
I stopped long ago asking the "average American" any questions related to politics, or general knowledge.
MOST are dumber than dirt.
Most of these cunts know who Justa Beaver is, or Miley DogFart wanna be Cyrus, or who won Dancing with the Stupid Assholes....
General knowledge of our government, and how it works?
FUCKING CLUELESS...and some even laugh about their own stupidity.
Blacks are really dumb; they support Fuckbama, and he is screwing them raw.
Between this, the dailykos article posted by a previous ZH poster about the BS Time mag cover stories presented to the US and after doing extensive research on common core math. I can only come to the conclusion, after seeing how early and obvious the dumbing down of america truly is, that this is all done by design to keep the masses at bay.
Ukraine is just this side of Neptune, no?
Thank goodness Russia hasn't invaded Moldova yet.
Does Titania & Miranda playing around your anus impair your ability to spel?
By the way, did you hear the American Idol guy is having his econd baby with his new girlfriend?...I mean wooooow
Idle America
Ukraine, Yukon, whatever.
Proof it isn't all DC.
I raise rabbits, chickens, turkeys and more and it is disconcerting, not that the average American doesn't know where Ukraine is, those who do not know want to intervene militarily and these people vote?
My animals know where the food and water is and tend to run together when frightened, no different than the average American.
Sad.....
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose Bierce
"Think how stupid the average American is. Then realize that half are even dumber than that." -- George Carlin
I can't believe that this country is fucking around with the whole world. Do they at least know which planet they're on?
" Do they at least know which planet they're on? "
Oh stop it!! Of course they know.........it's the flat one that the Sun and other planets revolve around.
itsa pretty crummy map to begin with so yeah I could get in the right neighborhood but there's lots'a turds in that part of europe to choose from, i meen idon't even see crimean penisula to gimme a clue geez
You don't need a tail to locate an elephant's asshole.
Ukraine is a big country.
Keep in mind the throng of tools had the benefit of seeing the map minus the red marks obscuring some borders.
I've noticed that hood wearing is on the rise. Who knew the south was ahead of it's time.
america: a clown with nukes and a digital printing press for the world's reserve currency.
They never ask the right question though.........the real one is, do you think the US should intervene militarily even if it leads to a nuclear war and the loss of major cities in the Continental US ?
I like the questions that suggest there is no sequel to a course of action bringing massive destruction.........if it does not come today, China and Russia will be thinking of payback for lots of years ahead
Dude, no guts no glory, dude! I say kick their commy asses!
Cue: Righteous ass-kickin' music. Slow-mo flag. (mmmm) and a tank.
....and really fat chicks on electric scooters armed with hand grenades. (See my post above.)
America needs to censor geography from its news reporting and perhaps the study of geography could be removed from the schools so that future citizens would be more likely to support military takeovers of countries they’ve never even heard of and couldn’t identify on a map if their lives depended on it. Oh wait…
Victory to Oceania! Defeat those ... those ... those other guys!
Duhhhhh...don't need to lift anything...why do U need a Krane?
Meanwhile, the natives are hep to the phony-baloney media and they are sick and tired of the farking lies and disinformation. They are fed up with the misrepresentation in leadership, the constant warmongering for profits, and the out of control wickedness performed for the banksters glory. The key to taking back America from the evil banksters is in taking back the truth in media. STOP THE PRESSES! It is time soon to put an end to all this horrendous babylonic evil in the lame stream propaganda machine. Everybody knows that the next move will be to create another govt sponsored False Flag Event to cover-up the crash, start moar woar, and to hide the outlandish failed economic policies of this administration. All hyped up for moar profits and viewership by the propagandists of lieology, and dis-infoism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yCfbLHG7tg#t=162
Everybody knows there are missing nukes that disappeared under cheney's reign.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/missing-nukes-from-the-us-air-force-treason...
Everybody knows they might have taken them to Pakistan by bush at the end of his presidency. Everybody knows that the plane from Malaysia may play a part in a coming false flag event. Everybody knows they the cheney crew were responsible for 9/11. Everybody knows these are the ruthless evil things that will produce another false flag event to start moar war with innocent Iran. Everybody knows that a horrific event may happen on a notorious date like April 19, or the 20th. It could happen on Easter too. These dates are just a few of the favorites for doing the kind of evil deeds these wicked babylonian govt sponsored al-cia-duh terrorists do.
http://bushwatch.small-mobile-entities.com/archives-january07.htm
The so-called black budget of America’s intelligence services, revealed by Edward Snowden, is said to be $52.6 billion (for 2013 alone).
With that kind of money, and there’s absolutely no definitive information on where it goes, our rulers can buy as many false flag operations as they need; they can buy media to be used whenever needed, they can buy politicians to be used whenever needed, and they can buy absolutely the latest scientific advances in surveillance equipment, to be used whenever needed.
John Cartledge writes of the tragic loss of individual freedom in America, that the powers granted to the new federal government were to be limited and not all encompassing, that the Founders' dream was not to be traded away for a Corporatist dream of world hegemony:
“The idea that liberty, in order to be preserved, must be jealously guarded against government encroachment did not originate with the United States Constitution. The 1776 constitution of our very own Commonwealth of Pennsylvania begins with a declaration of "the Inherent Rights of Mankind." Our Pennsylvania constitution formally recognizes that each of us has an "inherent and indefeasible right" to life, liberty and property. We have the right to make changes when government misbehaves, and not just on Election Day, either: The people have "at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish their government, in such manner as they may think proper." Politely written, but the message is clear. The authors of our state constitution knew that government would be the principal threat to individual liberty. Our 1776 state constitution contains many protections later included in the Bill of Rights, such as the right to a trial by jury, freedom of speech and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure…”
And, now, during the 20th and 21st centuries, all that has been thrown out the window, liberally tossed aside by the US Supreme Court, the US Congress, the US Executive Branch, and the ultimate power, the US (albeit private) Federal Reserve System – tossed aside by Big Brother in favor of an all-encompassing, totalitarian Orwellian State.
http://articles.mcall.com/2003-09-17/opinion/3483740_1_constitution-powers-congress
But 'merikins are good at math!...
http://www.s-anand.net/blog/funny-cartoon-find-x/
and destruction...
http://gawker.com/topless-florida-woman-wrecks-mcdonalds-pauses-to-guzzl...
LOL IR. Her ass isn't too bad but I don't think she needs any more ice cream.... or booze. It's gonna be hard to explain that episode in court.
I love how the workers just let her go. If that was me at my job, when she had her head in the fridge, i would have checked the door and her head into the boards. Lights out.
I hear you IR. I noticed that too. The employees were more annoying to me than the g-string gal was!
About says it all. Lol, introduction to Obama's core curriculm...
90% of them don't know where the United States is on a map, nor in which state they live, nor which district they represent and I am only talking about the D.C. politicians. One thing they do know is who pays them.
Amazing, though, how many can find the U.S. border by following Obama’s free food stamps signs posted along the highways and byways in Mexico – all featuring a big carrot, I presume.
Never mind that the United States is broke—that the American people are $17 trillion in debt and running a deficit of about $1.3 trillion a year.
Obama has decided Mexicans down Mexico way need your tax dollars and use of food stamps more than out-of-work hungry Americans.
But as Jeb Bush says, they’re only coming here out of love and if they’ve broken the law it’s only a misdemeanor. Funny that "love" seems not to translate to the American flag, nor the American people and the culture they created.
I just hope she's OK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_E7vC2VcRY
The video never gets old.
I believe she's the new Crimean interior minister.
"Where's Ukraine?"
There's a mnemonic for that:
Ukraine in Spain stays mainly in da plain.
So, pay no attention to all those red dots.
I came close to finding it in this movied, but laughed too much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ijr0micF4
That stat about military households doesnt surprise me either.
"oh our little Johnny's just gone off to blow up some sand niggers in Ukrainistan or some place, I dunno"
OMG that was funny.
This reminds me of a game I used to play back in my travelling days. I would challenge Americans to name as many US states as they could, and the winner buys the drinks. Since I'm Canadian, they all figured I'd be easy to beat.
The most anyone got was about 35, the average was around 25. Interestingly, everyone wrote them down as they came to mind, rather than list alphabetically and then go back to fill in the gaps (my method - knowing how many are in each letter is a big advantage).
Needless to say, I always beat them, then to rub salt in the wound I'd let them off the hook if they could name all ten Canadian provinces. Most would get about 5 or 6. No one ever got them all.
Try that yourself and see how many you get. No peeking now!
Then try it with state capitols....heh. I guarantee you'll wash out before you get half way.
its a migraine thats what it is a migraine and everybody knows where that is, its all in your head sir those nukes going off all around us are just a figment of your imagination. is that clear . good . thank you and close the shelter door on the way out.
Jesus fuck we're invading Alaska?
guns n butter bitches: who needs fiscal resposibility when we can have another war
no stinking unknown terrorist it's our well known long time nemisis russia (putin) russia (putin) russia
Yes U-Kraine!
[is that like, "Yes you Kan!]
Ask Americans where Georgia is, both the country and the US state. Aks them if the place should be invaded (never mind that the country Georgia is an ally). Before you know it Atlanta becomes a no-fly zone.
Hillary put the pin on Belize..... SEC OF SATE what a ......and by the way where the fuck is the $8,000,000,000.00????
Yeah... just tell them that Versailles Ohio is planning a terrorist attack on March Madness. It's actually pronounced ver-sails too..
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Where's Ukraine?"
Well, I can tell you where it isn't it isn't in my wallett. It took money from there and left.
On the bright side
At least 95% placed Ukraine in the Northern hemisphere. That's progress, considering that CNBC once had a graphic of Egypt being Iraq.
This goes beyond full retard.
This doesn't surprise me at all. What is more crazy is about this documentary that is coming out soon.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/star-trek-actress-lends-her-gravit...
Most polls that ask Americans state that anywhere from 20-30% believe in the geocentric theory (Sun rotates around the earth) and in general you can always get at least 20% of Americans to positively respond to the most b@tshit crazy ideas. Amount of Americans who also believe in the literal story of Genesis is really high too (20-50% depending upon how the question is asked).
Just a lot of incredibly ignorant Americans (usually older and usually religious) in the US that is larger that most other industrialized countries.
believe in the literal story of Genesis is really high too...a lot of incredibly ignorant Americans (usually older and usually religious)...
Count me guilty. If literal you mean it is recorded in a literary fashion and explains in a rational, coherent and reasonable way that a self-existent being is responsible for my being in an orderly, rational and reasonably comfortable and equipped environment for a period of time of which said being is impervious to, as time itself is nothing more than a creation in that it exists because matter is in motion, then yeah, I’ll subscribe to such a notion.
It makes more sense than my being the result of an infinitesimal, impersonal and nondescript point of singularity containing the entirety of the universe having decided on its own and for no apparent reason to “explode” “into” “being”. If ever there was nothing, then rationally, there would still be nothing. Fact is, “nothing” cannot even be fathomed, because it will at that point then become “something”. A Self-existent Being is the only option that does no violence to reason.
Jmo.
I will concur that the Universe is designed* because the Mathematical Odds are many trillions of times so absurdly** against a Chance Occurence. However the literal understanding of the allegorical story presented in Genesis confounds those whom believe themselves to be "rational".
Of course the ones whom declare that there is no designer and that the Universe is a result of random chance are wagering upon a number so small that it approaches the concept of an infinitesimal. It takes a lot of blind faith to believe that. That faith just smacks of the Religion which they, the atheist, despise and then they totally dismiss the Empirical Evidence.
They refuse to read or understand Roger Penrose, a renowned Cambridge University Physicist, one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th Century.
Your understanding of dimensionality and mass seems wanting. It is not due to motion that time or space exist (as photons are in motion and do not experience time nor space) but it is a direct consequence of Energy being slowed down from Light Speed. Think of the Lorentzian Equations backwards. Instead of approching Light Speed think of Energy leaving Light Speed and slowing.
Imagine yourself as a photon where there is no time and space is non existent in the direction of travel. Then slow down from Light Speed and then the following Loentzian Special Relativistic Definitions manifest. One gains Mass, spatial dimension in the direction of travel and it takes time to transverse that space.
m = mo(1 - v2/c2)-1/2 at v = c, then m is infinite...undefined
t = to(1 - v2/c2)1/2 at v = c, then t = 0 or does not transpire
x = xo(1 - v2/c2)1/2 at v = c then x = 0 or it is non existent.
Now think about this for a Mind Blower...God is the Light and in Him there is no darkness.
This statement demonstrates ominpotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. Because Light travels no distance and it takes absolutely no time to arrive (relative to the Light) then a Light Being can be everywhere at once. Being everywhere at once gives that being knowlege of all that is to happen. And since evrything is energy, because of the Mass-Energy EQUIVALENCE statement, E = mc2, then the Light Being has all power.
And Two Thousand Years ago that definition of God was written by "people" without any knowledge of Special Relativity. Must of been just "Dumb Luck"...
*thus one must infer a Designer
**That implies the utilization of the Engineer's Definition of absurdity, 10-50
Tell you what.
Take 100 pennies, shake them around and toss them on a table. Take all the heads to the side. Take the remaining tails pennies, shake them and around and toss them again. Again put all the heads to the side. Repeat until all your pennies are used up. How many repeats did it need?
You now have 100 pennies where all of them fell heads up. Every single one of them. What is the probability of that happening?
People don't understand probability.
And finally, since you're being recursive. Who created god anyway?
Seven to eight times will be sufficient for your 100 Penny flip..
From Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, 1989...
This now tells how precise the Creator's aim must have been, namely to an accuracy of one part in 1010123. This is an extraordinary figure. One could not possibly even write the number down in full in the ordinary denary notation: it would be 1 followed by 10123 successive 0's. Even if we were to write a 0 on each separate proton and on each separate neutron in the entire universe- and we could throw in all the other particles for good measure- we should fall far short of writing down the figure needed.
How many times does 1050 divide into 1010123? 10-50 is an ABSURDITY.
Those are the odds of a Chance Manifestation...You are so correct. People do not understand probability...LIKE YOU.
You can choose to deny the Empirical Evidence. Of course it serves to demonstrate your lack of rationality as I postulated in my intial response.
People don't understand probability...
I agree. Probability or "chance" is a concept without being. There is no power in the notion; therefore it is an incoherent argument to assign it a characteristic it does not possess. Chance / probability is only a rational concept with a being able to exercise power to activate it. Kinda like the initiation of HFTs, they're the product of a rational being, though they may actually be able to execute activities quicker than the creature that thought of and put it into motion.
jmo.
And by the way, given the concept of eternity, I will concede there exists the "probability" that an existing being may actually even be able to flip all 100 coins in a row and have them all land on their edges consecutively. The example still is meaningless because it assumes an object and being with power without taking into account the origin of either nor the power wherewith the being exerts to do the flipping.
I repeat, a self-existent being able to create with the power of speaking into being offers a far more satisfying remnant of orbits around the sun than the alternative.
jmo.
And finally, since you're being recursive. Who created god anyway?...
It's funny you would ask that question with the pronoun "who". In theological terms I believe the question is considered by contemplating the concept of aseity. I’ve used the English shorthand “self-existent”, but the term actually goes beyond the surface construction and delves into a further depth and richness of being.
Much like the concept of time being the product of past, present and future, space being height, width and depth, activities consisting of motives, actions and consequences, and matter containing the elements of weight, density and volume, the God of the Mosaic writings has a singular depth of being found in 3 persons too.
Works for me.
Jmo.
They're ignorant, or I'm just too white and nerdy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
Pop pop
This kind of misses the point and the more accurate interpretation of this data is that most people (if the heat map is correct) identified that Ukraine is roughtly in Eastern Europe/Central Asia.
Close misses only count in horseshoes and hand grenades ... OK in thermonukes too.
Questioner: Where is Ukraine on this map?
American: I dunno. Here maybe.
Questioner: No, I'm sorry, that's Portugal. Should we intervene militarily in Ukraine?
American: Hell Yeah! Kick those Ruski's in the ass!
Questioner: OK, then. How about another one. Where is Moldova?
American: That's a trick question. I don't have a Moldova -- I'm a guy. Next question, Alex Trebec.
I almost choked laughing when I saw this response by VanHalen:
"Everyone involved got participation trophies."
"the farther their guesses were from Ukraine's actual location, the more they wanted the US to intervene with military force.."
the correlation tells a lot.
LMAO i cant believe that these are actual people that gave such answers. i dont want to travel to their place.
Bet these are the same people who responded to this one.
http://time.com/7809/1-in-4-americans-thinks-sun-orbits-earth/
1 in 4 Americans Apparently Unaware the Earth Orbits the Sun...
And the fact that only 74 percent of participants knew that the Earth revolved around the sun is perhaps less alarming than the fact that only 48 percent knew that humans evolved from earlier species of animals.
Here’s the thing, though: Americans actually fared better than Europeans who took similar quizzes — at least when it came to the sun and Earth question. Only 66 percent of European Union residents answered that one correctly.
We won’t know the full results of the survey—or its methodology—until the National Science Foundation delivers its report to President Obama and U.S. lawmakers.
...
Wonder who the nitwits at the State Dept.were that put it in Australia
Ikraine, Ukraine, Weallkraine, Theykraine.
... but its no wonder so many got it wrong cuz there are NO LABELS ON THE DANG MAP!
My 'Kraine's right over here. I have no idea where the fuck Ukraine is.
Holy mother of God! I would love to hear from the person who picked Madagascar. We gotsa kill dem commies! YEW !
The bigger undelying message
The less they know the more dangerous they are to freedom and liberty in general. That trend should be clear as day and why this country except for a few of us individuals stuck in the middle of this who know better is a real danger to the world right now.
God help us come midterms remember these people vote......
I don't know if there are enough of us to stop this insanity from the inside at this rate. Too many cowards and enablers are clogging the pathways to change. The retards can always be dealt with.
Most Merikans can't place the location of the various US states, or correctly answer how many senators or congressmen, who we fought in WWII or 30% of respondents failed to correctly answer from which nation we gained independence. That 30% jumps up to 40% when a particular racial group is identified.
Gotta dumb 'em down to make 'em sheep.
Now you see hope and change Barry's real intentions which is revert this country and people from human beings back to nothing more than semi-intelligent animals. Just smart enough to cause problems but not smart enough to know why.
Crappy map!
Madagascar is coming !!!!!!!
I know, I know ... I saw the trailer just last week
If an episode of dancing with the stars or american idol had 1 episode in that shithole every sheep in dumfukistan would know where ukraine is located
Sort of makes it easy for American Bolsheviks to advance their universal cause, world socialism, via ownership of America’s Left Bank, i.e., Hollywood, bringing up to date Lenin’s outmoded means of “advancing the cause.”
In the old days, Kent State Professor Sidney Jackson, a 40-year Communist activist, promoted the use of libraries and such Red works as “Tasks of Libraries in the Cultural Revolution” by his friend, the Czech Communism library expert, Jaroslav Drtina. According to Jackson’s synopsis, the Drtina article…
It’s “about politics and power in the golden land, and it begins with the money.”
It’s a story of “money so big that more of Obama’s 2012 campaign haul came from California than from any other state,’ as Matthew Continetti put it, “contributions from the Los Angeles-Long Beach metro area were behind only those from Washington, D.C., and New York City, and the president has drawn ideas and resources and personnel from Hollywood and Silicon Valley (think Google).”
One Hollywood mogul alone, Jeffrey Katzenberg, in 2012 donated or raised more than $30 million for Obama,
It’s the story of the Democracy Alliance, “a secret, invitation-only organization of liberal moneybags that since its formation in 2005 has directed some $500 million in contributions to progressive groups,” with currency speculator George Soros perhaps its most famous member.
http://freebeacon.com/the-california-captivity-of-the-democratic-party/
Nice to have the Fed with all its free money on your side.
Looks likely nearly 20% of those people are probably figuring that the conflict will end soon because of the Ebola outbreak. Shit, they could give Alaska back to Russia and 5% of America wouldn't even notice.
Overheard at the gym this morning:
"Hey dude have you been following that Ukraine thing?"
"No, what's that about?"
"Russia invaded Ukraine like 3 weeks ago and we almost went to war with them."
"Seriously dude?"
Obviously you have the priviledge to train with high-level government insiders
I have never seen more conclusive results for a reason to go to war with Russia. Only 11% of Americans knew where Iraq was.
I was thunkin... maybe they should train them monkeys over there to deeliver explosives.... they got to have lots of them monkeys. They have big teeths too... here them good eatin.
"27 percent of 18-24 year olds correctly identified Ukraine, compared with 14 percent of 65+ year-olds."
Now that's a shocker.
Haf ta give them young'ns little more credit bah cracky.
Now if we can wise em up about Obummer.
Americkans are new Polacks
and that's the bottom line;
capisci ?
You have a point there.
Oh C'mon -- that's just not fair to the Poles!
Sort off a bird shot approach to geography.
Maybe within this map is the key to finding a place to hide from these idiots, I can't take it anymore. If the rest of the world thinks it's so funny they should try living with these assclowns... it's a torture no one should have to endure.
Let the State Dept's $5B machine go smoke out the separatists in Ukrainian Village, New Jersey.
At least we have Ben Stein. You know Ruskies quake in their shoes at the thought of going toe to toe with that guy.