The world’s biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to think that television has absolutely no effect on how we think or what we do. We believe that it is a way to relax. Many of us may be surprised to know that television is a controlling medium, relaxing us enough to switch off our analytical brain (the left side of the brain) so that we uncritically, or unlogically, process the information beaming from the television. This means we are less able to make decisions or judgments about what we hear on television.
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The US Spent Over $31 Billion Aiding Israel in the Past Two Years
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The Cost of War Project at Brown University calculated that total US
military support to Israel over the past two years has cost US taxpayers
over $30 bi...
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