Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Interesting URLs

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Best world news - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Best world view - Centre for Research on Globalisation: http://www.globalresearch.ca/
. . . via Ottawa professor - Michel Chossudovsky, bio - http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ONE311A.html

Real reporter - Eric Margolis_carreer bio - http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7#781

Real reporter - Gwynne Dyer - http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Gwynne+Dyer&meta=

Best random wind on a Canadian flutterby's wings.
The 2003 PC Party leadership convention revisited - http://www.davidorchard.com/online/2do-index.html. Duped David Orchard's failed state is about the deal that created Canada's Conservative Party ... the betrayal of Orchards written agreement with Peter MacKay and Mr. MacKay's subsequent surrender to the Canadian Alliance Party remains a scandalous episode in recent Canadian political history.

Anarchist Free University - http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/

Adversaries of (anti-civilization) Neo-primitive Anarchist Organizations - http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/WorldControl

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Groupthink: Learning how - our brains cannot be trusted
Acclaimed author and journalist, Malcolm Gladwell. The best selling author of The Tipping Point comes back to his hometown of Toronto in an event organized by the University of Toronto Bookstore Reading Series to discuss his latest book, Blink: Thin-Slicing, Snap Judgments and the Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
Groupthink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [excerpt]: from e-mail April 23 2005 to Julian:
-Groupthink is a term coined by psychologist Irving Janis in 1972 to describe one process by which a group can make bad or irrational decisions. In a groupthink situation, each member of the group attempts to conform his or her opinions to what they believe to be the consensus of the group. This results in a situation in which the group ultimately agrees on an action which each member might normally consider to be unwise (the risky shift).
Janis' original definition of the term was "a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action." The word groupthink was intended to be reminiscent of George Orwell's coinages (such as doublethink and duckspeak) from the fictional language Newspeak, which he portrayed in his ideological novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Groupthink tends to occur on committees and in large organizations.
More about becoming blind from invisible GROUPTHINK
Read the following the links: thin slicing >> decision-making
Cognitive and personal biases in decision making
It is generally agreed that biases can creep into our decision making processes, calling into question the correctness of a decision.
Blink (book) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a book by Malcolm Gladwell on what he calls "thin slicing", how we make snap judgments based on small amounts of information. The book discusses its successes (how strangers can judge your personality by looking at your apartment), its failures (how tall white men get picked as CEOs), and how we can turn failures into successes by focusing on the right things (women began getting jobs in orchestras as soon as a screen was put up during auditions).
The book is written in a popular style, with no footnotes but full of anecdotes. Some of it appeared previously in Gladwell's articles for The New Yorker.

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