Re: "Acknowledge that job hunting is a numbers game..."

Andrew101 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:09:29 GMT

If you hear something like, "Cold calling is a numbers game" that means that the more calls you make, the better you will do. In this case, the more jobs you search for, the better chance you have in getting one.

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Mike in Japan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:46:10 GMT

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Re: History - political propaganda or facts?

Ruslana — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:41:30 GMT

Yep, Dominik, I agree with you too.

Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. (From Wikipedia.)

You know, this definition somehow reminded me of the way the events of 11th September were highlighted. That day and for a long time later (even today) you could watch such headlines as "terrorism", "terrorists", "threat", "terroristic threat", etc in every newspaper or TV news program... But somehow a number of other facts (such as in the video below) are NOT highlighted very well.

Well, we can say people who are really interested in this issue can always find the necessary information. Yes, but the problem here, in my opinion, is not that mass media don't highlight ALL facts objectively now. The problem is that later the official history will consist of the facts "approved" by the government only. In other words, in 10 years, for example, in school textbooks there will hardly be any word of the molted metal, the core columns, the explosions, the absence of bodies, luggage, and seats at Shanksville and Pentagon, of the fact that the buildings came down at almost free-fall speed, and so on. Which means, the history will keep selectively chosen facts and will actually mislead our children. The history will become a "hardened political propaganda".

Now, I wonder what facts the history we learnt at school hides? Which facts about the centuries are objective, and which were interpreted "to produce an emotional rather than rational response"?

We're living in a terrible system, aren't we?

(The most interesting facts in the video start from the minute 3:20.)

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