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thescarface1989
8th March 2008, 18:27
http://rapidshare.com/files/37022263/Kick.50.Things.Youre.Not.Supposed.To.Know.pdf.html

Very interesting book I found
Of course we know some of the political things in here,

Stuff thats in the book

Table Of Contents

Introduction
01 The Ten Commandments We Always See Aren't the Ten Commandments
02 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
03 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
04 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
05 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply
06 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
07 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
08 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
09 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
10 World War III Almost Started in 1995
11 The Korean War Never Ended
12 Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
13 Kent State Wasn't the Only — or Even the First — Massacre of College Students During the
Vietnam Era
14 Winston Churchill Believed in a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
16 Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
17 Around One Quarter of "Witches" Were Men
18 The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army
21 Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
22 Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
23 The Police Aren't Legally Obligated to Protect You
24 The Government Can Take Your House and Land, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You're Allowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If
You're an Addict
26 The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
27 Most Scientists Don't Read All of the Articles They Cite
28 Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn't Support His Theories
29 The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
30 Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
31 The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
32 Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
33 Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
34 Most Doctors Don't Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
35 Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
36 Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
37 Work Kills More People Than War
38 The Suicide Rate Is Highest Among the Elderly
39 For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
41 An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
42 The Bayer Company Made Heroin
43 LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
44 Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
45 One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
46 The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
47 The Word "Squaw" Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
48 You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
49 Advertisers' Influence on the News Media Is Widespread
50 The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes

RHIZOMES
8th March 2008, 21:11
Chapter 9 and 10 look particularly interesting to me.

MarxSchmarx
10th March 2008, 08:36
OK, for the most part this is cute, BUT.


19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army


This is the kind of crap reactionaries put out as propaganda.
For instance, those "black soldiers" in the confederate army often signed up because (1) they were offered their freedom for doing so, or (2) were "free" blacks that were conscripted. And even if you can find one single black soldier that volunteered because he was committed to the confederate cause, who the hell cares? So what, black people don't have a right to denounce slavery because a few blacks believed it was OK?

As far as "pioneering" "feminists" opposing abortion, in Christian countries abortion was illegal and often punishable by death, so unless they were advocating committing a capital offense, of course they were against it.


40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible

Again, yes, it is not "infallible" in the way the pope or the Pythagorean theorem are infallible.
But the odds of a DNA match being wrong are something like 1 in a couple billion. In other words, unless somebody happens to have an identical twin, the odds of you being the daddy are 9999999998 in 9999999999 (or thereabouts). And that's assuming everyone in the entire world mates randomly, including with themselves. End of story.
This is again reactionary. DNA matching has exonerated far more innocent people than it has mistakenly found guilty. This is effectively saying appellate courts should uphold wrongful convictions because DNA evidence is "not infallible".

Bandito
10th March 2008, 13:31
15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number

Really??
Hmmmmm.....

R_P_A_S
10th March 2008, 14:38
Really??
Hmmmmm.....

yes i seen this on that documentary "corporation"

Bandito
10th March 2008, 14:58
One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book

Which one?
I know a rumour that one of the popes was actually a woman.
:(

Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg
10th March 2008, 22:01
Some of those look a tad dodgey

Kropotesta
12th March 2008, 18:35
http://www.scribd.com/doc/221887/50-Things-Youre-Not-Supposed-To-Know-eBookEEn