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#9 – High School Memories, Hollywood, and Political Issues with Thomas Godding
Tune into episode #9 as Thomas Godding and I share a few fun high school memories before eventually moving into deeper discussions on the Education System, Hollywood and the movie industry, Syrian Refugees, The Oregon Militia, Humans of New York, and a many other interesting political topics.
You don’t want to miss this episode!
Introduction Song:
White Noise by Hotel Garuda.
Shout Out:
www.NoExcuseList.com
References
8:05 – “The American Education System… “
Pearson ranked the U.S. at #14 worldwide. Surprisingly not that bad. Maybe our city/state just sucks.
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/index/index-ranking
8:20 – “No child left behind.”
This short video 4 minute video quickly explains all that’s wrong with the “No Child Left Behind Act.”
9:12 – “Khan Academy”
https://www.khanacademy.org/
You can also find other free online resources for education at www.NoExcuseList.com
9:33 – “Those tablets where you can draw on it..?”
Here’s a video of the CEO (Salman Khan) using the tablet I’m talking about to make a video.
10:10 – “Yale has free open courses”
http://oyc.yale.edu/
11:15 – “In Norway each student [has their own curriculum]”
I couldn’t find anything to support this claim, but one particular Norwegian school has completely ditched traditional methods. Rather than have specific subject classes, this school has single classes that combine all subjects into real-life examples. One particular project may combine math, language, biography, geography, and history together.
This article is a very interesting read:
http://qz.com/377742/this-school-in-norway-abandoned-teaching-subjects-40-years-ago/
12:07 – “India is pushing out a ton of coders”
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/india-to-overtake-u-s–on-number-of-developers-by-2017.html
12:23 – “There was a huge boom in technology in India”
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/emerging-markets-indias-new-technology-boom-cm527880
13:00 – “One of those survey websites”
I’m talking about the websites that use these little CPA marketing pop-ups.
13:32 – [Smooth segway]
14:06 – “So that you [schools] can get more funding…”
20:21 – “De-Personalization and De-Realization”
I experienced this for about 4-6 months of my life. It’s an absolutely terrible feeling and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.
Here’s a screenshot I took of a Youtube commenter describing de-realization that’s pretty spot-on.
In short, you essentially feel very detached from your entire reality. Everything around you seems like fake two-dimensional Hollywood props. You don’t see an entire room, you see and feel everything separate from one another. It feels almost like your whole life was taken from under you and your world was replaced with a simulator, like the Matrix.
De-personalization is the same thing, except with people. Everyone around you seems so artificial.
Imagine if Neo was taken out of the real world and placed in the Matrix, and he knew it was the Matrix, but he’s stuck there for eternity. The feelings he would experience are de-personalization and de-realization.
To learn more about this, just go to YouTube and search both of those phrases. Lots of people who are currently experiencing it, or have previously experienced it, discuss what it’s like and how long it took for it to go away.
31:05 – “Well on the other end of the spectrum…”
It was Warren Buffet who used to sell magazines door-to-door.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101000052
Also, check this out:
31:11 – “[Einstein didn’t do well in school]”
“When he was very young, Einstein’s parents worried that he had a learning disability because he was very slow to learn to talk.”
http://www.history.com/topics/einsteins-life-facts-and-fiction
This article says that Einstein himself disputed the myth that he was bad at math as a child.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1936731_1936743_1936758,00.html
31:22 – “Divinci had severe dyslexia”
Unknown. It appears as though the only reason people think he was dyslexic was because of the fact that he wrote backwards, however it’s believed that he may have done this to prevent people from easily reading his notes and stealing his idea.
http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/famous-people.htm
37:02 – “On the Federal level, same standards, but I think on the State level, there’s different standards…”
True. The Federal Government essentially says “Here’s a box of guidelines, stay inside the box, but do whatever you’d like within the box.”
Read more about State and Federal education standards here:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/
This Reddit user also does a good job at explaining how Common Core works:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3jpult/what_is_common_core_in_american_schools_why_do/
37:17 – “Resources don’t make that much of a difference”
I meant beyond the essential resources, or the (bare-minimum) basics.
Looking back at this, I disagree with my statement. Resources make a huge difference.
40:05 – “There was an actor or actress that was coming out and saying that success is solely defined by social media followers these days”
I cannot quite remember who it was, but there are several icons in the industry who have flat-out admitted to this reality.
… I think it was Emma Watson.
46:45 – “At Disney Land.. some people use their roles to feel self-important”
Reading about Disney from ex-employees on Reddit is a very fun way to kill an after-noon. There’s a LOT about Disney Land that you know absolutely nothing about; secret tunnels, strict regulations for employees, cameras, lots of rumors, fun stories…etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1qe3e7/employees_of_disney_what_is_the_craziest_thing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3h9oi2/workers_of_disneylandworld_what_is_the_coolest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2rrd38/disneyworldland_employees_what_is_the_most/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/23dqsk/what_are_some_disney_themeparks_secrets_that_some/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3802j8/workers_or_exworkers_of_disney_have_you_ever_been/
49:50 – “I’ve been replacing meaningless shows with TED talk videos..”
www.TED.com
50:26 – “I’ve been watching Flash”
The a Netflix Original.
58:53 – Some of you may have difficulty distinguishing what Thomas said here.
He said “Trump”, as in Donald Trump.
58:53 – If you wait long enough, you’ll realize that everyone has something of value to offer.
This is a quote from an inspirational speech by Randy Pausch. I highly recommend watching it.
59:49 – “I love Open Source!”
In short, “Open Source” is the act of everyone working together on something. Any individual can build on the efforts of an entire community and create a new standard for everyone else to build on.
1:01:38 – “There’s actually been studies that show.. the more educated you are, the more likely you are to vote democrat.”
More accurately put, the more educated an individual is, the more they have experienced different viewpoints from their learning, and the more tolerant they become of unique individual policies that may not affect them personally, such as gay-marriage, abortions, and laws regarding various religious practices.
http://www.demos.org/blog/why-most-educated-americans-vote-democratic
Here are the two links Thomas gave me:
http://www.businessinsider.com/proof-republicans-really-are-dumber-than-democrats-2012-5
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2012/nov/05/larry-sabato/education-level-tied-voting-tendencies/
1:03:39 – “What would you do for other people if money wasn’t an issue?”
This reference is a place-marker.
1:03:47 – “There have been other studies that show that after a certain monetary amount is accumulated.. the need for money turns into a mental condition.”
This is article all I could find on the subject:
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/cash-hoarding-becomes-addiction-5502
1:07:04- “…And you’ve got countries like North Korea and China printing out fake American bills just to devalue it, and putting it into circulation”
They’re called “Super notes” or “Super-dollars” because their quality exceeded that of the dollars printed by the Federal Reserve. The North Korea, Iran, Syria, and the CIA have all been suspected of counterfeiting dollars, but I don’t see any information on China counterfeiting, only being suspected of distributing fake dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
https://news.vice.com/article/north-koreas-counterfeit-benjamins-have-vanished
1:07:31 – “…there’s the Sony nonsense with The Interview?”
http://time.com/3639275/the-interview-sony-hack-north-korea/
1:09:56 – “But they believe in a talking snake that gave apples to two people…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
1:10:19 – “South Korea was taking DVD’s, and books, and pamphlets.. and dropping them in North Korea with parachutes?”
It was North Korea, and they dropped 1 million pamphlets onto South Korea via helium balloons. LOL
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35349686
1:10:46 – “On the demilitarized zone, there’s a fake city that [North Korea] has built”
http://nypost.com/2014/07/11/the-mysterious-fake-town-on-north-koreas-border/
1:12:55 – “Jim-Crow Esque Ideals..”
Definition: The former practice of segregating black people in the United States.
Usually “Jim Crow” refers to the loopholes that white supremacists used to prevent black people from voting, by requiring that they pass certain tests that the commonly uneducated black people couldn’t pass.
1:14:55 – “I’m going to Google what percent of refugees even get through the screening process”
The UHNCR screens and recommends only a very small percentage of the Syrian refugees to the U.S.. The U.S. then accepts a very small percentage of these refugees for additional screenings and only allows some of those refugees into the U.S.
The U.S. is even behind it’s goal of accepting 10,000 refugees, which is a drop in the ocean.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/syrias-suffering-families/u-s-way-behind-its-goal-accepting-10-000-syrian-n552521
Here’s an info-graphic showing the rigorous screening process Syrian refugees must go through:
1:16:52 – “Everyone knows we install puppet dictators in other countries. We even get caught and people brush it off as typical US behavior.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States
1:17:39 – “It’s just the Native Americans, just the black, the Chinese immigrants..”
The U.S. was built on the slavery, manipulation, and abuse of each of these races. One quick Google search of each race followed by “U.S. history” will reveal some pretty disgusting American history.
1:17:45 – US Military expenditure compared to other top countries.
The U.S. spends more money on its military than the next 15 countries combined, majority of which are allies.
1:19:28 – “10,000 refugees? ..out of? “
1,736 out of 10,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/middleeast/us-has-taken-in-less-than-a-fifth-of-pledged-syrian-refugees.html?_r=0
1:19:52 – “According to senior administration officials, more than half of the Syrian refugees admitted into the U.S. so far are children.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/syrian-refugees-u-s-applicants-explainer/
1:20:51 – Humans of New York Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/
1:21:04 – “Aya’s story”
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/135200820456/611-i-was-fourteen-when-i-arrived-in-syria
1:21:21 – Majority of drone strikes are on innocent civilians
Want more? Watch this moving video that shows the Syrian crisis through the eyes of a child:
1:22:05 – “I think I’ve seen a picture of her, she’s pretty and looks white, doesn’t she? “
I believe I was mistakenly thinking of the Youtuber “Syrian Girl”:
1:22:33 – “But less than .000001% of Muslims are extremists”
One estimate shows that roughly .006625% of the Muslim population are “extremist”.
Source:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-extremist-Muslims-are-there-when-compared-with-the-wider-and-world-wide-Muslim-population
1:23:45 – “How dare you drown in my Mediterranean Sea.”
Warning, these pictures contain graphic content of refugee children that drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
https://www.google.com/search?q=refugee+children+drown+in+mediterranean+sea&biw=1378&bih=803&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLsfGb0ITOAhUGIpoKHTQUCm4Q_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=refugee+children+drown+in+mediterranean+sea+near+turkey
1:24:23 – “I think I saw his TED talk…”
Well it wasn’t the one I saw, but Brandon Stanton does have a TED talk video.
1:24:59 – “There’s like four different teams going against each other”
I’ll spare you the articles. The middle east looks like this:
1:25:07 – “There’s rebel groups that originally started off as parents.. “
1:25:34 – “If you go to a lot of these countries, they’re some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.”
This AskReddit thread will be a huge eye-opener for many people.
READ THIS!
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3nyru1/serious_soldiers_of_reddit_whove_fought_in/
1:25:57 – “[Before and After pictures of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq]”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546697/Haunting-pictures-Syrias-5-000-year-heritage-buried-rubble-war.html
1:26:16 – “We show a few pictures of a few [Muslims] who don’t look like us and hyper-focus on that image”
1:26:25 – “We have 8 minutes until you need to leave”
He was late to his dinner arrangement, but he decided to stay a bit longer.
1:27:10 – “Xenophobes [Definition]”
One unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin.
1:27:21 – [We start talking about the Oregon militia incident here]
This reference is a place-marker.
1:27:37 – [The Bundy ranch story]
This is the clip that started the whole incident.
Read more about the Bundy Standoff here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
1:29:03 – “What happened in Waco..”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh#Ruby_Ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
1:29:44 – “That killed about.. six.. four agents? I think it was..”
Four agents died in the Waco stand-off.
1:30:06 – “The FBI at the Waco scene was also the one in charge during Ruby Ridge.. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh#Ruby_Ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi#Ruby_Ridge
1:30:48 – “I think only about 10 or 12 people escaped”
Only 9 people survived.
1:30:50 – “..And then another 20-25 committed suicide or mercy killings.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege#Fatalities_of_April_19
Five children under the age of 14 were shot. Autopsies suggest that mercy killings took place.
1:31:35 – Oregon Militia Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge
1:35:52 – “And thanks to the Patriot Act, they can detain you for any reason, for X amount of time.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention_without_trial#United_States
1:36:04 – “That was the Patriot Act, wasn’t it? “
Woops. I was checking my notes earlier and didn’t hear him say it, so I said it just in case it wasn’t said.
1:36:07 – “We didn’t repeal that? [The Patriot Act]”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243850-obama-signs-nsa-bill-renewing-patriot-act-powers
1:36:19 – “I think people stopped it, but then they just put out another one the next-day with another name?”
CISA, The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. Signed into law by Obama on December 18, 2015:
1:37:03 – “Like recently actually, they slipped into a 2,000 page bill.. that the U.S. no longer has to print the country of origin on meat.”
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/12/usda-ends-cool-enforcement-with-presidents-signature-on-omnibus-bill/
1:37:17 – “..was that part of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)?”
1:38:54 – “And China is terrible with all its smog.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35173709
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/asia/china-pollution-smog-photos/
1:41:52 – Dead Racoon in Toronto
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/people-in-toronto-created-a-memorial-to-a-dead-raccoon-after?utm_term=.udZpXW7mG#.ki47xy4WN
1:44:14 – “I mean Tumblr is a weird place.. “
He meant Twitter of course.
1:45:13 – “Got a shout-out?”
A quote: “Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It. – George Santayana”
1:46:00 – “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
It appears as though this quote was actually said by Bernard Baruch, but is commonly mistaken as having been a quote by Dr. Seuss.
How can listeners get in touch with GuestNameGoesHere?
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I want you to go into each conversation with the understanding that the people around you might be dealing with something really difficult beneath the surface, like the death of a relative, or thoughts of suicide.
My hope is that having this on your mind will modify your interactions and encourage you to be kinder, to offer more support, and to greet more people with a friendlier smile.”
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Tune into episode #9 as Thomas Godding and I share a few fun high school memories before eventually moving into deeper discussions on the Education System, Hollywood and the movie industry, Syrian Refugees, The Oregon Militia, Humans of New York, and a many other interesting political topics.
You don’t want to miss this episode!
Introduction Song:
White Noise by Hotel Garuda.
Shout Out:
www.NoExcuseList.com
References
8:05 – “The American Education System… “
Pearson ranked the U.S. at #14 worldwide. Surprisingly not that bad. Maybe our city/state just sucks.
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/index/index-ranking
8:20 – “No child left behind.”
This short video 4 minute video quickly explains all that’s wrong with the “No Child Left Behind Act.”
9:12 – “Khan Academy”
https://www.khanacademy.org/
You can also find other free online resources for education at www.NoExcuseList.com
9:33 – “Those tablets where you can draw on it..?”
Here’s a video of the CEO (Salman Khan) using the tablet I’m talking about to make a video.
10:10 – “Yale has free open courses”
http://oyc.yale.edu/
11:15 – “In Norway each student [has their own curriculum]”
I couldn’t find anything to support this claim, but one particular Norwegian school has completely ditched traditional methods. Rather than have specific subject classes, this school has single classes that combine all subjects into real-life examples. One particular project may combine math, language, biography, geography, and history together.
This article is a very interesting read:
http://qz.com/377742/this-school-in-norway-abandoned-teaching-subjects-40-years-ago/
12:07 – “India is pushing out a ton of coders”
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/india-to-overtake-u-s–on-number-of-developers-by-2017.html
12:23 – “There was a huge boom in technology in India”
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/emerging-markets-indias-new-technology-boom-cm527880
13:00 – “One of those survey websites”
I’m talking about the websites that use these little CPA marketing pop-ups.
13:32 – [Smooth segway]
14:06 – “So that you [schools] can get more funding…”
20:21 – “De-Personalization and De-Realization”
I experienced this for about 4-6 months of my life. It’s an absolutely terrible feeling and I wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy.
Here’s a screenshot I took of a Youtube commenter describing de-realization that’s pretty spot-on.
In short, you essentially feel very detached from your entire reality. Everything around you seems like fake two-dimensional Hollywood props. You don’t see an entire room, you see and feel everything separate from one another. It feels almost like your whole life was taken from under you and your world was replaced with a simulator, like the Matrix.
De-personalization is the same thing, except with people. Everyone around you seems so artificial.
Imagine if Neo was taken out of the real world and placed in the Matrix, and he knew it was the Matrix, but he’s stuck there for eternity. The feelings he would experience are de-personalization and de-realization.
To learn more about this, just go to YouTube and search both of those phrases. Lots of people who are currently experiencing it, or have previously experienced it, discuss what it’s like and how long it took for it to go away.
31:05 – “Well on the other end of the spectrum…”
It was Warren Buffet who used to sell magazines door-to-door.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101000052
Also, check this out:
31:11 – “[Einstein didn’t do well in school]”
“When he was very young, Einstein’s parents worried that he had a learning disability because he was very slow to learn to talk.”
http://www.history.com/topics/einsteins-life-facts-and-fiction
This article says that Einstein himself disputed the myth that he was bad at math as a child.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1936731_1936743_1936758,00.html
31:22 – “Divinci had severe dyslexia”
Unknown. It appears as though the only reason people think he was dyslexic was because of the fact that he wrote backwards, however it’s believed that he may have done this to prevent people from easily reading his notes and stealing his idea.
http://dyslexia.learninginfo.org/famous-people.htm
37:02 – “On the Federal level, same standards, but I think on the State level, there’s different standards…”
True. The Federal Government essentially says “Here’s a box of guidelines, stay inside the box, but do whatever you’d like within the box.”
Read more about State and Federal education standards here:
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/
This Reddit user also does a good job at explaining how Common Core works:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3jpult/what_is_common_core_in_american_schools_why_do/
37:17 – “Resources don’t make that much of a difference”
I meant beyond the essential resources, or the (bare-minimum) basics.
Looking back at this, I disagree with my statement. Resources make a huge difference.
40:05 – “There was an actor or actress that was coming out and saying that success is solely defined by social media followers these days”
I cannot quite remember who it was, but there are several icons in the industry who have flat-out admitted to this reality.
… I think it was Emma Watson.
46:45 – “At Disney Land.. some people use their roles to feel self-important”
Reading about Disney from ex-employees on Reddit is a very fun way to kill an after-noon. There’s a LOT about Disney Land that you know absolutely nothing about; secret tunnels, strict regulations for employees, cameras, lots of rumors, fun stories…etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1qe3e7/employees_of_disney_what_is_the_craziest_thing/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3h9oi2/workers_of_disneylandworld_what_is_the_coolest/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2rrd38/disneyworldland_employees_what_is_the_most/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/23dqsk/what_are_some_disney_themeparks_secrets_that_some/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3802j8/workers_or_exworkers_of_disney_have_you_ever_been/
49:50 – “I’ve been replacing meaningless shows with TED talk videos..”
www.TED.com
50:26 – “I’ve been watching Flash”
The a Netflix Original.
58:53 – Some of you may have difficulty distinguishing what Thomas said here.
He said “Trump”, as in Donald Trump.
58:53 – If you wait long enough, you’ll realize that everyone has something of value to offer.
This is a quote from an inspirational speech by Randy Pausch. I highly recommend watching it.
59:49 – “I love Open Source!”
In short, “Open Source” is the act of everyone working together on something. Any individual can build on the efforts of an entire community and create a new standard for everyone else to build on.
1:01:38 – “There’s actually been studies that show.. the more educated you are, the more likely you are to vote democrat.”
More accurately put, the more educated an individual is, the more they have experienced different viewpoints from their learning, and the more tolerant they become of unique individual policies that may not affect them personally, such as gay-marriage, abortions, and laws regarding various religious practices.
http://www.demos.org/blog/why-most-educated-americans-vote-democratic
Here are the two links Thomas gave me:
http://www.businessinsider.com/proof-republicans-really-are-dumber-than-democrats-2012-5
http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2012/nov/05/larry-sabato/education-level-tied-voting-tendencies/
1:03:39 – “What would you do for other people if money wasn’t an issue?”
This reference is a place-marker.
1:03:47 – “There have been other studies that show that after a certain monetary amount is accumulated.. the need for money turns into a mental condition.”
This is article all I could find on the subject:
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/cash-hoarding-becomes-addiction-5502
1:07:04- “…And you’ve got countries like North Korea and China printing out fake American bills just to devalue it, and putting it into circulation”
They’re called “Super notes” or “Super-dollars” because their quality exceeded that of the dollars printed by the Federal Reserve. The North Korea, Iran, Syria, and the CIA have all been suspected of counterfeiting dollars, but I don’t see any information on China counterfeiting, only being suspected of distributing fake dollars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
https://news.vice.com/article/north-koreas-counterfeit-benjamins-have-vanished
1:07:31 – “…there’s the Sony nonsense with The Interview?”
http://time.com/3639275/the-interview-sony-hack-north-korea/
1:09:56 – “But they believe in a talking snake that gave apples to two people…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve
1:10:19 – “South Korea was taking DVD’s, and books, and pamphlets.. and dropping them in North Korea with parachutes?”
It was North Korea, and they dropped 1 million pamphlets onto South Korea via helium balloons. LOL
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35349686
1:10:46 – “On the demilitarized zone, there’s a fake city that [North Korea] has built”
http://nypost.com/2014/07/11/the-mysterious-fake-town-on-north-koreas-border/
1:12:55 – “Jim-Crow Esque Ideals..”
Definition: The former practice of segregating black people in the United States.
Usually “Jim Crow” refers to the loopholes that white supremacists used to prevent black people from voting, by requiring that they pass certain tests that the commonly uneducated black people couldn’t pass.
1:14:55 – “I’m going to Google what percent of refugees even get through the screening process”
The UHNCR screens and recommends only a very small percentage of the Syrian refugees to the U.S.. The U.S. then accepts a very small percentage of these refugees for additional screenings and only allows some of those refugees into the U.S.
The U.S. is even behind it’s goal of accepting 10,000 refugees, which is a drop in the ocean.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/syrias-suffering-families/u-s-way-behind-its-goal-accepting-10-000-syrian-n552521
Here’s an info-graphic showing the rigorous screening process Syrian refugees must go through:
1:16:52 – “Everyone knows we install puppet dictators in other countries. We even get caught and people brush it off as typical US behavior.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_supported_by_the_United_States
1:17:39 – “It’s just the Native Americans, just the black, the Chinese immigrants..”
The U.S. was built on the slavery, manipulation, and abuse of each of these races. One quick Google search of each race followed by “U.S. history” will reveal some pretty disgusting American history.
1:17:45 – US Military expenditure compared to other top countries.
The U.S. spends more money on its military than the next 15 countries combined, majority of which are allies.
1:19:28 – “10,000 refugees? ..out of? “
1,736 out of 10,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/middleeast/us-has-taken-in-less-than-a-fifth-of-pledged-syrian-refugees.html?_r=0
1:19:52 – “According to senior administration officials, more than half of the Syrian refugees admitted into the U.S. so far are children.”
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/politics/syrian-refugees-u-s-applicants-explainer/
1:20:51 – Humans of New York Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/
1:21:04 – “Aya’s story”
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/135200820456/611-i-was-fourteen-when-i-arrived-in-syria
1:21:21 – Majority of drone strikes are on innocent civilians
Want more? Watch this moving video that shows the Syrian crisis through the eyes of a child:
1:22:05 – “I think I’ve seen a picture of her, she’s pretty and looks white, doesn’t she? “
I believe I was mistakenly thinking of the Youtuber “Syrian Girl”:
1:22:33 – “But less than .000001% of Muslims are extremists”
One estimate shows that roughly .006625% of the Muslim population are “extremist”.
Source:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-extremist-Muslims-are-there-when-compared-with-the-wider-and-world-wide-Muslim-population
1:23:45 – “How dare you drown in my Mediterranean Sea.”
Warning, these pictures contain graphic content of refugee children that drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
https://www.google.com/search?q=refugee+children+drown+in+mediterranean+sea&biw=1378&bih=803&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLsfGb0ITOAhUGIpoKHTQUCm4Q_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=refugee+children+drown+in+mediterranean+sea+near+turkey
1:24:23 – “I think I saw his TED talk…”
Well it wasn’t the one I saw, but Brandon Stanton does have a TED talk video.
1:24:59 – “There’s like four different teams going against each other”
I’ll spare you the articles. The middle east looks like this:
1:25:07 – “There’s rebel groups that originally started off as parents.. “
1:25:34 – “If you go to a lot of these countries, they’re some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.”
This AskReddit thread will be a huge eye-opener for many people.
READ THIS!
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3nyru1/serious_soldiers_of_reddit_whove_fought_in/
1:25:57 – “[Before and After pictures of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq]”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2546697/Haunting-pictures-Syrias-5-000-year-heritage-buried-rubble-war.html
1:26:16 – “We show a few pictures of a few [Muslims] who don’t look like us and hyper-focus on that image”
1:26:25 – “We have 8 minutes until you need to leave”
He was late to his dinner arrangement, but he decided to stay a bit longer.
1:27:10 – “Xenophobes [Definition]”
One unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin.
1:27:21 – [We start talking about the Oregon militia incident here]
This reference is a place-marker.
1:27:37 – [The Bundy ranch story]
This is the clip that started the whole incident.
Read more about the Bundy Standoff here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
1:29:03 – “What happened in Waco..”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh#Ruby_Ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
1:29:44 – “That killed about.. six.. four agents? I think it was..”
Four agents died in the Waco stand-off.
1:30:06 – “The FBI at the Waco scene was also the one in charge during Ruby Ridge.. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh#Ruby_Ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi#Ruby_Ridge
1:30:48 – “I think only about 10 or 12 people escaped”
Only 9 people survived.
1:30:50 – “..And then another 20-25 committed suicide or mercy killings.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege#Fatalities_of_April_19
Five children under the age of 14 were shot. Autopsies suggest that mercy killings took place.
1:31:35 – Oregon Militia Story
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge
1:35:52 – “And thanks to the Patriot Act, they can detain you for any reason, for X amount of time.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_detention_without_trial#United_States
1:36:04 – “That was the Patriot Act, wasn’t it? “
Woops. I was checking my notes earlier and didn’t hear him say it, so I said it just in case it wasn’t said.
1:36:07 – “We didn’t repeal that? [The Patriot Act]”
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/243850-obama-signs-nsa-bill-renewing-patriot-act-powers
1:36:19 – “I think people stopped it, but then they just put out another one the next-day with another name?”
CISA, The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. Signed into law by Obama on December 18, 2015:
1:37:03 – “Like recently actually, they slipped into a 2,000 page bill.. that the U.S. no longer has to print the country of origin on meat.”
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/12/usda-ends-cool-enforcement-with-presidents-signature-on-omnibus-bill/
1:37:17 – “..was that part of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)?”
1:38:54 – “And China is terrible with all its smog.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35173709
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/asia/china-pollution-smog-photos/
1:41:52 – Dead Racoon in Toronto
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/people-in-toronto-created-a-memorial-to-a-dead-raccoon-after?utm_term=.udZpXW7mG#.ki47xy4WN
1:44:14 – “I mean Tumblr is a weird place.. “
He meant Twitter of course.
1:45:13 – “Got a shout-out?”
A quote: “Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It. – George Santayana”
1:46:00 – “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
It appears as though this quote was actually said by Bernard Baruch, but is commonly mistaken as having been a quote by Dr. Seuss.
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