PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “This 52 Yr. Old First Time Voter Supporting Jeremy Corbyn!” / The Jimmy Dore Show / Jimmy Dore ☮
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Monthly Archives: June 2017
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: “FFRF Rapid Response 1” / Freedom From Religion Foundation / Patrick Elliott ☮
FFRF Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott discusses President Trump’s budget and private school voucher programs.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: “Ask an Atheist: What’s Wrong with the Ten Commandments?” / Freedom From Religion Foundation / Annie Laurie Gaylor, Dan Barker, and Andrew L. Seidel ☮
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Larry Hamm: History is the Present” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges is joined by Larry Hamm, Chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress. They discuss the history of oppression of African Americans in the U.S. and the relentless struggle for racial equality.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Midnight in Paris (on the Damn Doomsday Clock)” / Liberal Redneck / Comedian, Trae Crowder ☮
We done screwed the pooch with this Paris Climate shit yall. I would say Trump’s fiddlin while the world burns but it ain’t no way he can work a fiddle with those stupid tiny baby hands. Anyway we all gone die. Love ye.
RATIONALISM: “Isaac Asimov Talks About Superstition, Religion, and Why He Teaches Rationality” ☮
This was recorded in 1988. He also explains why some people who think that we should abandon science are wrong and how scientific worldview is the best.
CHRISTIAN INDOCTRINATION AND CHILD ABUSE: “The Effects of Christian Homeschooling” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “The God Distraction: Salvation” / Mr. Deity ☮
What can we actually know about salvation, how it can be secured, or if it’s even necessary?
QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE: “Why There is No Way Back for Religion in the West” / TEDx Talks University of Essex / Andrew Henry ☮
Religion is in decline across the Western world. Whether measured by belonging, believing, participation in services, or how important it is felt to be, religion is losing ground. Society is being transformed, and the momentum appears to be unstoppable.
You might be asking yourself two questions. Is it actually true? And even if religion is currently losing ground, could things change in the future?
David is a quantitative social scientist with a background in demography. He serves on the executive committee of the European Values Study and is co-director of British Religion in Numbers (www.brin.ac.uk), an online centre for British data on religion that has received recognition as a British Academy Research Project. He serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Sociology and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. With Mike Brewer, David directs the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC). He is also Deputy Director of ISER.
DOMESTIC ECONOMICS: “Trump’s Infrastructure Scam” / Robert Reich, and MoveOn.org ☮
Trump vows to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system and spur $1 trillion in new investment in roads, waterways and other infrastructure. How? By charging us DOUBLE: Once for giving tax breaks to private investors in infrastructure, and then for paying the tolls and fees they’ll charge. It’s another of Trump’s giant scams. Don’t fall for it.
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