Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The Oma Hamou Reality Blog
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a flyer to combat myths about the flu vaccine. It recited various commonly held views, and labeled them "true" or "false." Among those identified as false were statements such as "the side effects are worse than the flu" and "only older people need flu vaccine."
It's The Reason Why They Lie
In his Face the Nation Commentary, Bob Schieffer criticizes the level of pandering and spin that has become a staple of modern American politics. He chides the candidates, saying:
"My bet is not many people believe any of them, because frankly, we’re not that dumb. What annoys me is that these candidates seem to think we are.”
They certainly do, because we are. But not in the way you would think. We just can't remember the truth once we've heard the lie. According to this study, Why debunking myths is difficult:
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a flyer to combat myths about the flu vaccine. It recited various commonly held views, and labeled them "true" or "false." Among those identified as false were statements such as "the side effects are worse than the flu" and "only older people need flu vaccine."
When University of Michigan social psychologist Norbert Schwarz had volunteers read the CDC flyer, however, he found that, within 30 minutes, older people misremembered 28 percent of the false statements as true. Three days later, they remembered 40 percent of the myths as factual. Younger people did better at first, but three days later they made as many errors as older people did after 30 minutes. Most troubling was that people of all ages now felt that the source of their false beliefs was the respected CDC. The psychological insights yielded by the research, which has been confirmed in a number of peer-reviewed lab experiments, have broad implications for public policy. The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies show that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically contribute to the resiliency of popular myths.
Those on Bob Atchison's Team must have been on to this study years ago. This would explain why they so freely dissemble and spin, even when the truth can so easily be discerned afterwards. It doesn't matter, because for most people, the lie will be remembered as true, not the earlier reality. In fact, the article discusses this very issue:
This phenomenon may help explain why large numbers of Americans incorrectly think that Saddam Hussein was directly involved in planning the Sept. 11 attacks and that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Iraqi. While these beliefs likely arose because Bush administration officials have repeatedly tried to connect Iraq with Sept. 11, the experiments suggest that intelligence reports and other efforts to debunk this account may help keep it alive.
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Research on the difficulty of debunking myths has not been specifically tested on beliefs about Sept. 11 conspiracies or the Iraq war. But because the experiments illuminate basic properties of the human mind, psychologists such as Schwarz say the same phenomenon is probably implicated in the spread and persistence of a variety of political and social myths.
The research does not absolve those responsible for promoting myths in the first place. What the psychological studies highlight is the potential paradox in trying to fight bad information with good information. The research is painting a broad new understanding of how the mind works. Contrary to the conventional notion that people absorb information in a deliberate manner, the studies show that the brain uses subconscious "rules of thumb" that can bias it into thinking that false information is true. Clever manipulators can take advantage of this tendency.
And I suppose -- in part at least -- that explains why those on Oma Hamou's Team have had such a hard time of it. Because those on Bob Atchison's Team is willing to spin and twist the truth with the greatest of ease, it is left to those on Oma Hamou's Team to try to explain the "reality" or the truth. Once the idea is planted, it's roots are difficult to eradicate. Trying to explain or correct the facts later just doesn't work. Add to this the fact that those on Atchison's Team are expert at the spin, repeat & spin again cycle, so the wrong concept is really embedded in our minds. The Inquirer's conclusion bears this out:
The research also highlights the disturbing reality that, once an idea has been implanted, it can be difficult to dislodge. Denials inherently require repeating the bad information.
JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF THE LIES ON OMA HAMOU REALITY BLOG WHICH THEY CLAIM IS FROM PUBLIC RECORDS, CONVERSATIONS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, ETC:
The California Better Business Bureau http://alexanderpalaceobsession.blogspot.com/2007/02/image-hosted-by-imageshackus.html
The REAL Time Line of Events that led to Oma (Hamou) Demian's Criminal Convictions: http://alexanderpalaceobsession.blogspot.com/2006/10/bob-atchisons-friend-man-going-by-web.html
Source: http://alexanderpalaceobsession.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html
Video via Crooks and Liars)
Tags: Commentary, Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer, Politics, Video
Labels: Bob Atchison, Criminal Harrassment, Rob Moshein, Stalking Oma Hamou
Monday, November 26, 2007
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE...
Statement of Oma Hamou to Bob Atchison & Pallasart Web Ventures, Inc. & Rob Moshein
[Excerpts] "...Despite the facts that (1) you were put on notice of my intent to file criminal charges against Bob Atchison, Rob Moshein and Pallasart Web Venture, Inc., and (2) you have consistently elected to snidely disregard the content of my letters to you, choosing instead to post snippets of them on the web, which served only to distort the true substance of said letters and advance your deliberate distortions of the truth I once again request, you consider in good faith my request that you either (1) amend the current information being displayed on the Blog to reflect the truth, or, in the alternative, remove the Blog from the web altogether. If you fail to do so, and instead maliciously disregard the content of this letter, you proceed at your own peril. The statements on the Blog published or otherwise communicated to third parties concerning Enigma, Sarskaia and/or myself have been blatant fabrications, self-serving, and demonstrate a course of conduct calculated to harass and oppress. Such conduct exposes you and all involved to substantial liability. Furthermore, you should not infer, based on incomplete information or the absence of information, that certain events happened, or did not happen, in my life. Such fallacious, incomplete, incorrect, and deliberately libelous reports concerning me and my life imperil my existing economic benefits, resulting in substantial damages to me. I had hoped that, in light of what you’ve already experienced during my prior lawsuit against you, and given the fact that you have been put on notice of the pending litigation that you would have stopped doing this kind of thing. Significant efforts to educate you regarding the real facts have been put forth in the past, evidently with little effect..."
Source: OmaHamou.com
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