Rewriting History Is Pervasive Among Omniscient Journalists

[From article]
Orwell grasped the vital need for real history and he saw how those who lust for power will murder history as their first victim. Winston Smith, the protagonist in 1984, works in the Ministry of Truth and systematically destroys history so that no clues of its death can even be found.
[. . .]
Turner Classic Movies on January 4, 2016 has a night of films about the Spanish Civil War. Virtually all the films are propaganda for the Popular Front; they portray the Nationalist side as illegitimate, brutal, and corrupt. Try to find a film that presents the Spanish Civil War in any other way.
[. . .]



Spanish towns in Nationalist hands that were destroyed by the Popular Front field artillery or naval guns, and atrocities committed against women and children by the Popular Front, were accepted by almost everyone covering the Spanish Civil War, with some estimates of innocent Spaniards killed by the Popular Front as high as 500,000, or about six percent of the population of Spain.
[. . .]
When the Second World War began, Franco allowed the French to inspect France's border with Spain, where there were no Spanish troops, so that France could concentrate on stopping Hitler. After France fell, Franco stayed out of the conflict when joining Hitler would have cost the British Gibraltar and the war. During the war, Franco intervened to save at least 40,000 European Jews from the Holocaust, according to three different books on the subject by Jewish scholars.
[. . .]
Franco's authoritarian, rather than totalitarian, rule accounted for the painless transition of Spain into a healthy democracy after his death.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_murder_of_history.html

January 4, 2016
The Murder of History
By Bruce Walker

Sniff of Rosemary Improves Memory, The Spice Not The Girl

What were we talking about?

[From article]
The key to a better memory could be right under your nose.
The smell of rosemary boosts our ability to recall past events and remember what to do in the future, research claims.
It is thought a compound that gives the herb its distinctive smell –1,8-cineole – aids a brain chemical which is the key to memory.
The same brain chemistry is targeted by Alzheimer's medicines, and researcher Dr Mark Moss, head of psychology at Northumbria University, says the plant has a 'drug-like effect'.
Volunteers did memory tests while sitting in a room infused with rosemary oil. Others sat the tests in a lavender-fragranced room, or in one with clean air.
Rosemary boosted long-term memory and the ability to do simple sums. It also improved 'prospective memory' – used to carry out plans, such as remembering to post a letter – and improved recall by about 15 per cent in men and women of all ages, an International Fragrance Association conference heard.
Dr Moss said healthy people may gain from regularly burning rosemary oil and inhaling.
He said: 'People think it might be really good for their brain if they do more exercise or reading or brain training puzzles... but you can sit and watch the telly and use aromas.'
While he doesn't think it would help those who have dementia, rosemary helps healthy brains stay young for longer. 'There's no guarantee of benefits but I would be cautiously optimistic,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3381642/How-sniff-rosemary-boost-memory-helps-chemicals-brain.html

How a sniff of rosemary could boost the memory because it helps the chemicals in the brain
Compound that gives the herb its distinctive smell aids a brain chemical
That chemical - 1,8-cineole - is the key to memory and can be boosted
Rosemary found to help long-term memory and ability to do simple sums
Study also discovered it improved 'prospective memory' in most people
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 20:56 EST, 1 January 2016 | Updated: 21:18 EST, 1 January 2016

Journalists Follow Politicians Dumbing Down Voters and Taxpayers, Sending History Down the Memory Hole

[From article]
This handy chart helps journalists frame the narrative of each crime, “not to tell the audience what happened, but to expand the event into an indictment of Western culture.” For example, if the attacker is a non-white shooter and the victim is white the narrative is about gun control. If the attacker is non-white and the victim is also “run story about the Kardashians instead.”
[. . .]

 

Much the same preference for make-believe narrative over fact can be said of the political reporting this year where the increasingly careless New York Times which in Cathy Fasano’s telling confused “37 inches from 37 acres” to deny the existence of King Solomon’s Temple.
Simply put, corporate media simply doesn’t understand the public disdain for the political class and is trying frame the foreign policy ineptness of the administration (and the former secretary of state) and the paltry offerings for the Democratic presidential race into a fairytale of a Republican civil war in which conservatives are destroying their party.
[. . .]

 

They didn’t just omit the fact that the CIA has been arming, training and funding [Syrian] rebels since 2012, they heavily implied they had never done so.



[T]he Central Intelligence Agency set up a secret program of arming, funding and training anti-Assad forces. This has been reported by major outlets, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and, most recently, the Washington Post, which -- partly thanks to the Snowden revelations -- detailed a program that trained approximately 10,000 rebel fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year, or roughly 1/15th of the CIA’s official annual budget.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/the_journalists_handbook_how_to_write_any_story_without_working_at_it.html

October 11, 2015
The Journalists' Handbook: How to Write any Story Without Working At It
By Clarice Feldman

Scientists Can Improve Memories of Damaged Brains, That Recall What Officials Don't Want Recalled

This is all well and good, especially to help persons with damaged brains. One concern is when evil doctors decide that a person has a damaged brain and needs an implant to bypass his damaged brain. But the person has no brain damage. That pattern appears with criminal psychiatrists on occasion for personal, political and economic purposes. Frequently politicians, like those in the White House say of persons they disagree with, "They are the crazies." Insanity is often attributed to persons in Cambridge, MA, on university campuses if they disagree with the dominant liberal dogma. "Repairing damaged brains" too can be used for harm. What, if any, protocol exists to prevent abuses of this capability? Researchers with high standards and unquestionable rectitude, seldom think of the use of new technology for evil. They cannot imagine anyone using for evil, what they created or discovered to help others. 



[From article]
When your brain receives the sensory input, it creates a memory in the form of a complex electrical signal that travels through multiple regions of the hippocampus, the memory center of the brain. At each region, the signal is re-encoded until it reaches the final region as a wholly different signal that is sent off for long-term storage.
If there's damage at any region that prevents this translation, then there is the possibility that long-term memory will not be formed. That's why an individual with hippocampal damage (for example, due to Alzheimer's disease) can recall events from a long time ago -- things that were already translated into long-term memories before the brain damage occurred -- but have difficulty forming new long-term memories.
Song and Berger found a way to accurately mimic how a memory is translated from short-term memory into long-term memory, using data obtained by Deadwyler and Hampson, first from animals, and then from humans. Their prosthesis is designed to bypass a damaged hippocampal section and provide the next region with the correctly translated memory.
[. . .]



In hundreds of trials conducted with nine patients, the algorithm accurately predicted how the signals would be translated with about 90 percent accuracy.
"Being able to predict neural signals with the USC model suggests that it can be used to design a device to support or replace the function of a damaged part of the brain," Hampson said.
Next, the team will attempt to send the translated signal back into the brain of a patient with damage at one of the regions in order to try to bypass the damage and enable the formation of an accurate long-term memory.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150929142524.htm

Scientists to bypass brain damage by re-encoding memories
New prosthesis aims to help people living with memory loss
Date:September 29, 2015
Source:University of Southern California
Summary:Researchers are testing a prosthesis that translates short-term memories into longer-term ones, with the potential to bypass damaged portions of the brain.

Digital Amnesia Spreading Among Young And Old

The research findings

The results reveal that the ‘Google Effect’ likely extends beyond online 

facts to include important personal information. 

For many people, particularly younger consumers, connected devices 

have become not just the primary source of knowledge, but the 

default storage space for their most important personal information, 

including contacts and imagesiii. Around half of smartphone-owning 

16 to 44 year olds surveyed for the study admit that their phone holds 

almost everything they need to know or recall. 

The study findings show that the majority of these digital consumers 

strongly depend on devices and the Internet as an extension of their 

brain; and suggest a direct link between data available at the click of 

a button and a failure to commit that data to memory.

Kaspersky Lab has termed this phenomenon Digital Amnesia: the 

experience of forgetting information that you trust a digital device to 

store and remember for you.

The study found evidence of Digital Amnesia equally among both 

men and women and across all age groups. Contrary to general 

perception, it is surprisingly prevalent among older respondents.

For example, respondents aged 45 and older are more likely to head 

straight for the Internet for the answer to a question, and write the 

fact down or choose to forget an online fact once they’ve used it on 

the assumption that it will always be out there somewhere. The data is 

discussed in more detail below.

https://kasperskycontenthub.com/usa/files/2015/06/Digital-Amnesia-Report.pdf

http://wtop.com/health/2015/07/study-most-americans-suffer-from-digital-amnesia/

Study: Most Americans suffer from ‘Digital Amnesia’
By WTOP Staff
July 1, 2015 2:15 pm

Sending History Down The Memory Hole

[From article]
But if we are going to take the Confederate flag down because it no longer represents us, then there is no reason why we shouldn’t take the American flag down, too. Not just from the government buildings in South Carolina, but from every home, ship, office, and church throughout the entire American territory. Because neither flag has anything to do with who we are anymore. Old Glory is now just as much a meaningless relic as the republic that created it -- as obsolete as the Stars and Bars became in April of 1865.
[. . .]
The borders that give us identities are dissolving, just as the histories that stabilize us as a people have been rejected.
[. . .]
The Southern states whose leaders and symbols are now roundly despised seceded from the still fledgling American nation-state not one hundred years after its birth. But those Southern states had more in common with the North than any of us have in common with one another now.
[. . .]
If we really want to be honest with ourselves, we will display other symbols in our public squares. Down with the Confederate flag, symbol of a once-proud patrimony and reminder, too, of the suffering of so many who worked thanklessly to sustain it and died to defend it. Down with the American flag, too, symbol of oppression and injustice to those who live in the highest level of material comfort ever achieved by mankind. A white flag of cultural surrender might be better, a kind of semaphore to our enemies to invade and take over. But it would also be redundant. Our enemies already know of our surrender, and they are long since living among us,
[. . .]
If the argument is that no one identifies as a Confederate anymore, then the counter-argument must be that no one could possibly identify as an American. What was glorious about us is just as dead as Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln alike. The invaders and anarchists who run wild in our streets are now in control, and they have made it clear that whatever the United States of America used to be -- whatever its citizens once held dear, which in turn held them together -- is worthy only of contempt.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/dissolving_america_.html

June 29, 2015
Dissolving America
By Jason Morgan

Listening To Mozart Improves Memory

Listening to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, shown in the portrait above, caused changes in brain wave activity that are linked to intelligence, memory and having an open mind to problem solving, research from Sapienza University of Rome shows. The effects were most pronounced in young adults and elderly adults.

[From article]
The researchers, from Sapienza University of Rome, said: 'These results may be representative of the fact that Mozart's music is able to 'activate' neuronal cortical circuits (circuits of nerve cells in the brain) related to attentive and cognitive functions.'
The results were 'not just a consequence of listening to music in general', they added.
For the study, which was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition, the researchers used EEG machines to record the electrical activity of the participants' brains.
Recordings were made before and after they listened to 'L'allegro con spirito' from the Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K448 by Mozart, and before and after they listened to Fur Elise by Beethoven.The group was made up of 10 young healthy adults with an average age of 33 (referred as the Adults), 10 healthy elderly adults with an average age of 85 (known as the Elderly), and 10 elderly people with mild cognitive impairment with an average age of 77 (referred to as MCI).
'The results of our study show an increase in the alpha power and MF frequency index of background activity in both Adults and in the healthy elderly after listening to Mozart's K448, a pattern of brain wave activity linked to intelligent quotient (IQ), memory, cognition and (having an) open mind to problem solving.

[. . .]

'One of the distinctive features of Mozart's music is the frequent repetition of the melodic line; this determines the virtual lack of 'surprise' elements that may distract the listener's attention from rational listening, where each element of harmonic (and melodic) tension finds a resolution that confirms listeners' expectations,' they wrote.
A previous study, published in 1993, found that listening to K448 could also improve spatial reasoning skills for a short time afterwards.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3112339/How-listening-Mozart-boost-memory-Classical-composer-s-music-linked-increase-brain-wave-activity-beats-Beethoven.html

Listening to Mozart can boost your memory: Classical composer's music increases brain wave activity - and it beats Beethoven
Researchers played classical music to young adults and elderly people
Listening to Mozart's L'allegro con spirito sparked changes in brain activity
It triggered brain activity linked to memory, cognition and problem solving
Beethoven's Fur Elise, however, failed to show any significant change
By SOPHIE FREEMAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:40 EST, 5 June 2015 | UPDATED: 08:43 EST, 5 June 2015

Technology Enabling Memory Implants Will Bring Interesting Consequences

[From article]
The holiday of the future will still provide memories of strolls along sunny beaches, the sensation of sand between your toes and the peaceful rush of the ocean, but there will be one crucial difference.
You won't have ever actually been away - in fact you might not have even left your home.
Instead, people will download memories to their brains to make them feel as if they have been on a sun-kissed holiday.
That’s just one of the many realities we could face as we learn to manipulate the human mind, US physicist Dr Michio Kaku told MailOnline in an exclusive interview.
[. . .]
First of all, someone goes on vacation before you, and pleasant memories such as walking on the seashore and picking up rocks are put on a disc,’ Dr Kaku told MailOnline.
‘Then they're uploaded into your own mind; relax, and there you are at the beach.
‘Feel the wind at your face, hear the sound of the waves, all the sensations – you’ll have a memory of a very nice walk on the beach in some exotic location, that’s what this person before you felt.
‘These things are within the realms of possibility – it’s only a matter of time.’
[. . .]
As Dr Kaku points out, we have learned more about the brain in the last 15 years than we have in the rest of human history.
And crucially, our knowledge of the map of neural connections in the brain, known as the connectome, is rapidly improving.
This is thanks to machines such as MRI scanners that can see which parts of the brain light up as a person performs different activities.
[. . .]
On telepathy, Dr Kaku says we can already take someone who’s totally paralysed, hook them up to a computer, and allow them to send messages on the internet.
In the future, you could ‘walk into a room, mentally turn on the lights, internet, answer emails, call up for a movie. Indeed the computer mouse will gradually be phased out.
This will be made possible thanks to programmable matter – the dream of creating tiny little dust particles with the power of a PC, known as catoms, that can change their electric charge and be rearranged – all by our minds.
[. . .]
Advancements in brain manipulation have important moral implications in the future, too, according to Dr Kaku.
‘[You could] fire a gun and record that, and insert it into an innocent person’s brain so he thinks he fired a gun when he didn’t.’
Dr Kaku says it will be entirely possible that we will one day be able to upload entire skills into a person's brain.
To become a doctor, for instance, someone could have all the relevant medical terminology and procedures uploaded into their mind.
[. . .]
Innocent people can be fooled into believing they have carried out a violent crime that never took place, a study has revealed.
Psychologists found that during just three hours of interviews, adults could be convinced they had perpetrated a theft, an assault, or even attacked somebody with a weapon when they were a teenager.
People can be fooled into believing they have carried out a violent crime that never took place
Using suggestive memory-retrieval techniques, the researchers were able to trick 70 per cent of the participants into believing they had committed an offence.
The effect was so strong that the participants ended up providing detailed descriptions of things that had never actually taken place

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2965072/Will-holidays-soon-uploaded-MINDS-Dr-Michio-Kaku-reveals-use-brains-50-years.html

Will holidays soon be uploaded to our MINDS? Dr Michio Kaku reveals how we could use our brains in the next 50 years
US physicist Dr Michio Kaku was speaking exclusively to MailOnline
He revealed his theories on how we may control our brains in the future
Include implanting 'memories' to make us think we've been on holiday
Could also send our minds to distant worlds to control surrogate robots
We'll be able to manipulate our surroundings with 'programmable matter'
Creature from the another world would think that we were 'sorcerers'
By JONATHAN O'CALLAGHAN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:28 EST, 23 February 2015 | UPDATED: 08:24 EST, 23 February 2015

Technology Will Enable Erasing Memories

[From article]
“Once organized crime figures out how to do this, I could see a horrific scenario wherein somebody is kidnapped and threatened that unless they pay an exorbitant sum, their lifelong memories of their wife or daughter would be erased,” warned Goodman.

http://www.infowars.com/expert-future-hackers-could-wipe-peoples-memories/

EXPERT: FUTURE HACKERS COULD WIPE PEOPLE’S MEMORIES
Neurohackers could kidnap hostages and threaten to delete their AI-enhanced brains, warns former FBI futurist
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Cambridge City Councilors Have Limited Memory, Minimal History of City

Harvard University event tent on the overpass

On November 1, 2000 I testified before the Cambridge City Council's Ordinance Committee regarding affordable housing. I suggested then that the city build, two towers on the land over the tunnel for Cambridge Street. It is city land which Harvard University uses for fund raising and for social events. 

[From article]
"What we have here in our city is an affirmative action program, and I think what we need to begin looking at a little bit more is who are the residents that were born in Cambridge and went to Cambridge Public Schools, that work for the Fire Department, work for the Police Department and can no longer stay in our city," Benzan said.
"As far as looking at our priority point system that we should provide and give priority to folks that graduate from our public school system, that are born in the city, that are working for the city, that have to leave the city for whatever reason because they can’t afford it and want to come back," Benzan added.
Benzan also suggested the city convert lots 5 and 6 in Central Square into affordable housing units.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20141009/NEWS/141006585

Cambridge councilors call for more aggressive affordable housing plan
By Sara Feijo
sfeijo (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Oct. 9, 2014 @ 8:35 am
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Unrest Across the Globe Due to Misguided History?

This opinion piece begins by noting the failure of a dumbed down population to remember history. The he uses the analogy of selective history for his argument. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 was only about 1100 year after the beginning of the religious wars of the Middle East began. If the argument over who owns what land is the issue, one historian makes the case that all people came down from Russia across the former Aleutian Bridges. That means we are all Russians. 

[From article]
Because memory, particularly historical memory, fails unfailingly, this summer feels like a uniquely horrific season of dissolution and blood
[. . .]
President Obama was asked how he could claim that Al Qaeda had been “decimated” when jihadi flags were now aloft in Falluja, he resorted to a blithe formulation. “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” the President told this magazine.
[. . .]
As Bernard Avishai wrote on our Web site last week, “You can unspool this vendetta back to the Balfour Declaration, in 1917.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/aflame-2

Comment AUGUST 04, 2014 ISSUE
New Yorker

Aflame
BY DAVID REMNICk

Endless Scandals Keep Population Perplexed On What to Focus

[From article]
That story was receiving a lot of media attention until the President announced his swap of five members of the Taliban high command for one American deserter, and since then, there has hardly been any coverage of it. It was even being labeled a scandal in the mainstream media, with some arguing that, unlike Benghazi and the IRS, this one was a real scandal. But that was because they could argue that it was a scandal that began during previous administrations, and thus there was no specific blame on Obama’s shoulders.

It's like scandal of the week, created intentionally to cover up last week's scandal. That with the dumbed down population, which has no memory, makes it easy to keep violating laws without accountability, and showing contempt for the Constitution. 

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/va-crises-getting-lost-in-scandal-overload/

VA Crises Getting Lost in Scandal Overload

Roger Aronoff — June 12, 2014

Youth Have No Memory, No Historical Perspective

[From article]
It is said that the problem with the younger generation — any younger generation — is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting. Barack Obama, forever young, has convenient memory loss: It serves his ideology.
[. . .]
However, a Wall Street Journal headline announces that Washington has a plan: “U.S. Backs Off Tight Mortgage Rules.” It really is true: Life is not one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over.
There is, however, something new under the sun. The Pew Research Center reports that Americans age 25 to 32 — “millennials” — constitute the first age cohort since World War II with higher unemployment or a greater portion living in poverty than their parents at this age. But today’s millennials have the consolation of having the president they wanted.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will052814.php3#.U5Z22N0--yM

Jewish World Review
Obamanomics
By George Will

May 28, 2014

Government Claims To Be Able to Restore Memory

[From article]
Darpa is seeking to develop a portable, wireless device that “must incorporate implantable probes” to record and stimulate brain activity, according to documents posted online. Those submitting proposals were instructed to specify the number, size, spacing, weight and power requirements of the probes in their proposals, as well as what areas of the brain would be targeted and the surgical procedures used to implant the devices.

Compare this with the project to eliminate memory. Hmmm. Criminals, and corrupt medical officials will be able to eliminate memories when convenient and to restore it when convenient. Lawyers will be paying big bucks for these trial consultants.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-07/brain-implants-hold-promise-restoring-combat-memory-loss.html

Brain Implants Hold Promise Restoring Combat Memory Loss
By Kathleen Miller 

Feb 7, 2014 11:31 AM ET

Scientists Try To Erase Memory

[From article]
The idea of scientists manipulating memory does, naturally, sound a bit creepy. But it also points to some possible good: treatment for millions of people tormented by real memories. And that’s something worth remembering.

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-scientists-are-learning-shape-our-memory?dom=PSC&loc=slider&lnk=1&con=spotless-minds

How Scientists Are Learning To Shape Our Memory
The next treatment for trauma could be spotless minds.
By Virginia Hughes

Posted 11.25.2013 at 10:13 am

Memory Destroying Drugs Coming To Your Mind Soon

How wonderful! Now psychiatrists and anyone who can obtain these new memory-destroying drugs will now be able to prevent being identified as criminals. Technology being amoral makes it as easily available for evil as for good. Why is it that scientists do not know when to stop?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2195982/Drug-stop-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-way-successful-test-mice.html

Drug which can stop post-traumatic stress disorder could be on the way after successful test in mice
Researchers prevent learning and memory problems in mice after subjecting them to stress
Clinical trials of new drug could begin in a few years
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 15:29 EST, 30 August 2012 | UPDATED: 15:29 EST, 30 August 2012

Drug From Colombia Eliminates Memory, and Will

Comments say this drug is well known and is described on government web sites. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143584/Scopolamine-Powerful-drug-growing-forests-Colombia-ELIMINATES-free-will.html

The most dangerous drug in the world: 'Devil's Breath' chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill
Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks
Within minutes, victims are like 'zombies' - coherent, but with no free will
Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping them pillage own house
Drug is made from borrachero tree, which is common in Colombia
By BETH STEBNER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 17:44 EST, 12 May 2012 | UPDATED: 08:43 EST, 13 May 2012

Andrew Breitbart, A Remebrance

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/breitbart-s-last-laugh_633067.html?page=1

Breitbart’s Last Laugh
10:44 PM, MAR 1, 2012
Weekly Standard
BY MATT LABASH

2012 Grammy Audience Doesn't Know Paul McCartney

http://www.happyplace.com/14179/people-on-twitter-ask-who-is-paul-mccartney-during-grammys

What it looks like when Grammy watchers can't identify the most famous rock star in history.
www.happyplace.com

Remember: Innocent Until Proven Guilty

The guy said he doesn't remember. If he doesn't remember then it didn't happen right? And even if it did happen, he did nothing wrong. Most importantly he is innocent until proven guilty. As of now he has not been proven guilty. Thus he is innocent. If he is innocent why are they bothering this poor innocent guy? Maybe the researchers erased his memory. Then what? If he has no memory he could not have done it. Oh wait what were we talking about?

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1301641

Black-and-white case to dismantle Probation

By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Wednesday, December 8, 2010