November 27, 2013

Yes, I took notes as he spoke. Really worth while viewing, explains what we're confronted with now.

November 27, 2013

If anyone needed proof the Fairness Doctrine may never return, it's that lineup.

Talk radio is almost all toxic, spouting reichwing bile all day, every day with reruns. No wonder the country is imploding.

Repetition replaces the Truth, Facts, Reason and basic Logic.

And how we got here:

to Iwillnevergiveup

Henry Giroux on 'Zombie Politics'

Published on Nov 22, 2013

In his book, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, author and scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots to prove his theory that our current system is informed by a "machinery of social and civil death" that chills "any vestige of a robust democracy."

This week on Moyers & Company, Giroux explains that such a machine turns "people who are basically so caught up with surviving that they become like the walking dead -- they lose their sense of agency, they lose their homes, they lose their jobs."

What's more, Giroux points out, the system that creates this vacuum has little to do with expanding the meaning and the substance of democracy itself. Under "casino capitalism," the goal is to get a quick return, taking advantage of a kind of logic in which the only thing that drives us is to put as much money as we can into a slot machine and hope we walk out with our wallets overflowing.

A cultural and social critic of tireless energy and vast interests, Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in the English and Cultural Studies Department at McMaster University and is a distinguished visiting professor at Reyerson University, both schools in Canada.

Iwillnevergiveup's comment:

This interview with Bill Moyers will be among the best 44 minutes of your life. Promise.

Well worth the time to listen to the video there. I listened and took notes. Discussion at the thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=161094

Thankful for DU and all the excellent information we get here. Have a good holiday, everyone.

November 27, 2013

He's complaining because he sees himself and his family as royalty, exempt from paying for anything.

IOW, socialism (costs shared by everyone) for the rich and privatization (apartheid, we will tell you what you get, or don't get) in action.

November 26, 2013

Yup, that CIA Mission to Mars in the 1980s.

His mission:

To check out the flora and fauna and NOT get EATEN.

Hey, the internet says so.

November 26, 2013

Gentle but firm truth telling:

And so the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws. And what I’m proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve. But it won’t be as easy as just shouting. It requires us lobbying and getting it done.

How weary he must be, trying to teach the basics in a nation dumbed down by mass media. He has the same style as some of the best professors I've met.

Thanks for the article.

November 25, 2013

Who loves our children?

November 25, 2013

Regarding Bill Maher and False Equivalency:

The Democratic Party can hardly 'fight back' when they are not given air time, their mikes shut off, or their words edited. Faux has done that to Obama so often he finally put them out of press conferences.

And the Democrats do not have the largesse the GOP has from the Koch brothers, fossil fuel fuel and other corporations and do not use coverty groups to finance their campaigns. The reichwing has unlimited funding to run mantras, but in order to not be painted with the broad brush of being corporate candidates, my state's elected officials don't take that kind of money. They run on ideas.

But we are increasingly running out of venues to put forth our agenda, in the traditional matter. It really is word of mouth now, which is not as fast or powerful as billionaire owned media.

Just sayin'

November 25, 2013

It was written in the ACA at the start. Any state that wants it, could set it up. EOM.

November 25, 2013

Oh, the horror!

November 25, 2013

Yes, Sheshe, their lies cost lives. As to the cold, not bad here yet. Parts of CA, NV, AZ, NM and TX

are in for a hard holiday week, with ice, freezing rain and a lot of snow in the mountains.

But we can see from where I live that there is very good snow in the mountains, they are almost all white, and visible all the way here.

It's been like late winter, as the sun rises and sets with pinks, oranges, golds and purples. All those colors also reflect on the snow on the mountains.

But the trees still have some fall leaves on them anyway, and everywhere there are plenty of fragrant evergreen wreaths for sale. And most people have been burning wood for warmth for over a month now.

Stay warm, sweets:



Life is good!

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