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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
"Dwoods44 To supply technical information to a people like yourselves is a serious crime against the cosmic laws. The last thing that you need is...
“ John Kirby saying the president wanted to make a point about America's immigrant "DNA” That DNA is looking slightly cancerous if you ask me....
bestows state awards and holds the exclusive authority to grant a pardon. Yeah, the ever present "safety net" should give you a clue as to what is...
If it weren't for the fact that so many goyim are being slaughtered in this war production, it would almost be entertaining to watch this jewish...
Bill Gates was never more than an empty suit. A less-than-mediocre figurehead for certain 3-letter-agencies for their attempt to capture and...
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East Germany was a vassall of the Soviet Union, thus the KGB was superordinate. This "Stasi officer" crap in a below-zero-level tabloid is nothing but sand in your eyes. In the 09's, Putin was heavily involved in gangland activities while being advisor to the mayor of St. Petersburg. And don't forget the "caucasian terrorist" bombing affairs in Moscow during his presidential periods. It is ridiculous to believe he was not in the know.
I'd like to comment on this:
" strange that Putin is looking towards the right in the picture rather than straight ahead at the camera, which is normal practice for official identity documentation. "
It is quite possible that this was normal for official IDs.
I live in one of the past Warsaw-pact countries (not Germany), and the normal practice here for official ID's photos was actually looking slightly to the side, so part of the profile and one ear (left) had to be visible. It was a requirement, hence the word "practice" doesn't do the justice. Just like the formal requirement now is to look forward, and this is called the biometric photo. The change was made quite some time after the fall of communism, I believe with the advent of facial recognition software, and also to make it more compatible with most other countries. First it was changed for passports only, then also for personal IDs, issued by government, which are mandatory here.
Actually, it seems that some photo studies still make the one with partial view of left profile, they call it "non-biometric", and these are intended for non-governmental ID, for example school IDs. However, the electronic student IDs (used for higher education students) have the same formal requirements as official personal ID and passport, i.e. frontal view (biometric photo).