Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Mitch,

 

It's a bit like triangulation, two points can give you a fairly good position provided

you have an angle.  Three different points (of views), provided they are at a faire

distance from each other, will give a pretty good position even without complicated

calculations.

As a child, I had the diametrically opposed views of radio broadcasts from East and

West Germany.  Listening to those, it was almost as if there where two parallel

universes in existence.  I don't know if it helped me at the time to form an informed

opinion, after all I was only a child.  What it did, however, was to plant the conviction

in me that all information is relative.

 

As an adult, I lived in many different countries and cultures which enabled me to fine

tune my personal system of triangulation.  This has come in handy on a personal

as well as on a professional level.  In this day and age of superabundant information,

I'm always surprised at how one-sided and narrow national opinion still is in most

countries.

 

On a practical level; there is no news media without bias, not even the good old

BBC.  It is only with the experience of comparing different sources that you will

notice each bias.

 

Dieter Brand

Portugal

"E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net> wrote:

That's a lot of news sources!  Is this just a list of sources you have found useful, or do you believe it necessary to check them all to have a good overview?  I don't think I can manage to even scan them all.  Isn't there a source or two that we can review and be fairly confident that we have an accurate and comprehensive picture of world events?

 

I'm always open to better ways of getting information,  but I'm on overload already.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: Tradingpost

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 7:52 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 113, Issue 5

He stated his views and I stated mine. But we're not going to get way off
topic into all those controversies. Besides, don't take my word or his; try
following the news. I mean the real news, not the corporate networks and
newspaper chains. Major foreign papers carry much of the news you're not
allowed to see.

http://www.ft.com/
http://hosted.ap.org/
http://mondediplo.com/
http://www.iht.com/articles/
http://www.sfgate.com/
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/
http://environment.newscientist.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
http://www.chinadaily.com/
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
http://www.counterpunch.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/
http://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.japantoday.com/
http://www.newsdaily.com/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/12/2007 at 7:52 PM David Inglis wrote:

>> And I don't agree about CSAs. You don't have to agree with me of
>course.
>Paul, What thinking led you to this conclusion? It's hard to agree or
>disagree or a bit of both without knowing your reasoning.
>David
>



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