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...Everything You Know Is WRONG......Agent Smith

  Author:  21867  Category:(Interesting) Created:(7/30/2002 3:20:00 AM)
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Yo Peeps,

Every day we are bombarded with information via the media. Newspapers, magazines, TV, radio...all of if delivering information to us. Yet how much of it is true?? How much of what we get spoon-fed every day has been doctored, slanted, chopped and changed, modified and sanitized to fit the 'Status Quo'??

Often I will read an article in the Local News paper, or watch a News Segment on Television...then when I do some further investigation into the story a whole different can of worms is opened up. So how often do we just accept what is delievered as gospel?? Unfortunately I would say for the greater majority of people, what they read, hear and see every day just gets accepted as 'truth'.

I love to seek my News from other sources...other more alternative and/or independent sources that are somewhat removed from the influence of Government approved propoganda, accepted societal 'half-truths' and/or influence of Financers with a vested interest in ensuring the masses stay sedated and only hear what they 'need' (or what them) to hear.

If you're interested, I have a url for a short quiz I will post at the bottom. This quiz consists of 27 Questions which may just challenge what you hold to be 'truth'.

Heres an example of one of the questions:

11. The results of the famous domestic violence survey by the Family Research Laboratory in 1985 found that 1.8 million women were the victims of severe domestic abuse each year, which led to the famous statistic: A woman is battered by her partner every 18 seconds. That same survey found what number of men were victims of severe domestic abuse?

a) None

b) A statistically insignificant number

c) 250,000

d) 2 million

...the correct answer is...

D) 2 million: As hard as it is to believe, the same survey which gave us the widely-quoted one-woman-every-18-seconds figure found that even more men were being severely abused--one man every 15 seconds. Even the survey that was performed as part of the Violence Against Women Act found that well over a third of domestic violence victims are men. Yet this tragedy is denied to the point that battered men are in the same situation today as battered women in the 1950s.

...a case of a half truth that very few people seem to know about. If you wish to give this quiz a go...heres the url:

http://www.disinfo.com/pages/other/id2118/pg1



So...how up with the play are YOU???



Peace, Agent Smith

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Date: 7/30/2002 3:41:00 AM  From Authorid: 51876    Me and You seem to be parallel in our thinking and web-browsing.All the Sites that you have ever gave are already set in my Favorites...(I have AOL cause it's free and I can cover my trail easier.Great info in this post...Takerez.....BruiextheGreenman  
Date: 7/30/2002 3:43:00 AM  From Authorid: 46527    I scored 14, which considering that I am not an American isn't too bad I think.  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:50:00 AM  From Authorid: 18527    I got 15 right...   
Date: 7/30/2002 5:02:00 AM  From Authorid: 19382    gotta 15  
Date: 7/30/2002 5:14:00 AM  From Authorid: 20559    I got a 19 I agree that almost everything we read in the media is spun on a certain angle  
Date: 7/30/2002 6:17:00 AM  From Authorid: 53900    I got 18 correct...I do agree with you to a certain extent but I believe that some (not all) journalists do try to report teh news with as much truth as they can. Of course I know not everything I read or see on television is true or can be relied on as truth. But I think that is true of any news source no matter where you get the information. That is part of the reason I do not watch T.V  
Date: 7/30/2002 6:28:00 AM  From Authorid: 49713    im going to check it out now//necro420  
Date: 7/30/2002 6:41:00 AM  From Authorid: 49713    lol. i got only got 13 right! this one really got me. 6. Yale and the University of Pittsburgh each conducted autopsies of people in the US who had supposedly died of Alzheimer's. These studies found that 13 percent and 5.5 percent had actually died of another disease. Which one?

Lou Gehrig's disease
Brain cancer
CJD, the human form of mad cow disease
HIV/AIDS
MAD COW DISEASE? goodgodalmighty!//necro420
  
Date: 7/30/2002 7:46:00 AM  From Authorid: 48993    well seeing as I stopped watching the news about Oct 11th 2001 .... i would guess this is a pretty decent score of 15 correct answers out of the 27 ... which is passing .... better than working for the government i suppose ! LOL  
Date: 7/30/2002 8:34:00 AM  From Authorid: 11341    I got 19 right  
Date: 7/30/2002 9:28:00 AM  From Authorid: 24732    I got a passing grade of 16. What did you get Agent Smith?  
Date: 7/30/2002 9:30:00 AM  From Authorid: 9130    Now why didn't you respond to my debate about this the other day? :P just kidding, maybe you did respond to it... Thanks for posting, this stuff is interesting...  
Date: 7/30/2002 3:55:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo Bruiex, Awesome...glad to meet another raving Conspiracy Theorist such as myself Peace,  
Date: 7/30/2002 3:57:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo LSR,
Good score...though I do believe that sometimes having some 'distance' from the source is beneficial. For instance, I am often amazed when I mention certain American Acts and Legislation...and some Americans reply that they were unaware of these things...in their own country. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 3:58:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo Kethria, 15...awesome. Cheers for taking the test Peace,  
Date: 7/30/2002 3:59:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo ShipPagan,
Good to see you again...congrats on getting 15 Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:00:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo RogueDwarf, A 19! Sweet! Thats great...shows ya not too influenced by the slant we receive in mainstream media every day. Peace,  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:05:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo Luv_4_2_Pac,
Yeas indeed there are a number of reporters who are interested in presenting as much of the facts/truth as they can. The shame is that most (if not all) of these reporters are either made to toe the line, or shunned and shoved out from mainstream media due to their reports being deemed too inflammatory for general consumption. I have a close friend who is an investigative reporter and would posts the results of his investigation, regardless of what he found out...he last 12 months in the mainstream media before being pushed out because he refused to 'toe the line'. Was his information false? Of course not...it simply wasn't what the mainstream media and the Govt were interested in passing on to the Public. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:08:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo Necro420,
13 is okay...most people I know (except for the well informed here at USM of course) only score about 10. Some of it is a real eye opener isn't it. Cheers for taking the test. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:09:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo DanieDarlin,
Yep...gotta love that ranking 'Are You Sure You Don't Work For The Govt?' Hehehehe. Cheers for taking the test. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:10:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo DMK,
19! Awesome! We'll make a Conspiracy Theorist outa you yet Cheers for taking the test. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:12:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo ALF,
When I first took this test I got 25. The 2 questions I got wrong were about people I didn't know, so rather than guess I just left it blank. Congrats on the Passing Grade...here is your prize, a tin-foil cap to put on so the mindcontrol lazers can't effect you - LOL! Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 4:13:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo DizzyMe,
I'll have to check your post out then...sorry to have missed it. Cheers for reading and replying. Peace,
  
Date: 7/30/2002 6:57:00 PM  From Authorid: 51027    hey man when you riht your right its kind of like the matrix lol matrix that sounds Familiar peace.....matrix33  
Date: 7/30/2002 9:50:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 21867    Yo Matrix,
yep...that word Matrix sounds familiar Cheers for reading and replying. Peace,
  

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