DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM: “America Needs to Steal Back the Nordic Model”/ The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

America Needs To Steal Back the Nordic Model… If you want to live the American dream – or at least FDR’s version of it – you’ll have to move to Scandinavia.

CHRISTIAN IGNORAMOUS: “Creationist Ken Ham Attacks the ‘Blind Faith’ of Atheists” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

If you’ve been following the career of creationist guru Ken Ham, you know that he likes to engage in a lot of projection. In particular, he likes to claim that people who look at the world through the lens of science and empiricism are the real religious fanatics who can’t handle the truth that people used to ride around on dinosaurs when God created the Earth 6,000 years ago.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Fox News Does Propaganda Segment About Bernie Sanders’ Policies and Calls Him “Annoying” / The Humanist Report / Mike Figueredo ☮

After his win in West Virginia, Fox News decided to spread lies about Bernie Sanders’ policies and alleged that he would implement a 98% tax rate. Additionally, Geraldo Rivera was caught on hot mic and called him “annoying.” We break down the segment in this video.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Donald Trump Threatened to Sue the Onion in 2013” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮

So here’s what happened. In 2013, The Onion (which in case you don’t know is a satirical newspaper) printed a fake ‘opinion’ piece authored by ‘Donald Trump‘ titled, “When You’re Feeling Low, Just Remember I’ll Be Dead in About 15 or 20 Years.”

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Robert Scheer Discusses the Mainstream Media, Third Party Candidates, and Unchecked Power” ☮

https://youtu.be/OvypMAHDsbQ

Question: Do you believe “mainstream” media will continue to be allowed to pretend there are only two candidates, or will the Green Party and Libertarian Party candidates be included in polling, debates and the vast amount of free publicity provided by news outlets?

PALEONTOLOGY: “Hunting for Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place in the Universe” / Ted Talks / Kenneth Lacovara” ☮

What happens when you discover a dinosaur? Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara details his unearthing of Dreadnoughtus — a 77-million-year-old sauropod that was as tall as a house and as heavy as a jumbo jet — and considers how amazingly improbable it is that a tiny mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world could evolve into a sentient being capable of understanding these magnificent creatures. Join him in a celebration of the Earth’s geological history and contemplate our place in deep time.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Noam Chomsky: Today’s Republican Party is a Candidate for Most Dangerous Organization in Human History” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮

We speak with world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky about the Republican party, the rightward shift in U.S. politics and the 2016 election. “If we were honest, we would say something that sounds utterly shocking and no doubt will be taken out of context and lead to hysteria on the part of the usual suspects,” Chomsky says, “but the fact of the matter is that today’s Republican Party qualify as candidates for the most dangerous organization in human history. Literally.”

POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Brazil’s Silent Coup and Why it Matters?”/ The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

Dr. Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research (C.E.P.R.)/Just Foreign Policy/FAILED: What the “Experts” Got Wrong about the Global Economy joins Thom. Just months before the Summer Olympics are set to begin in Brazil – the country is in the midst of a serious political crisis. So why doesn’t the United States seem more concerned?