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Monthly Archives: September 2017
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH – NEUROSCIENCE: “A Very Hard Question for Religious People” ☮
In this short video Vilayanur Ramachandran describes experiments with split brain patients, people who have had their corpus callosum cut. It is very interesting when he describes what happens when the question of belief in God is posed.
SUPERSTITIOUS SNOWFLAKES: “Ad Featuring Religious Figures Triggers Fundamentalist Snowflakes” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN HYPOCRICY: “Ted Cruz Gets Crucified! Porn Scandal!” / Cult of Dusty / Dusty Smith ☮
The internet destroys Ted Cuz after he accidentally post porn to his twitter.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “White Teens Lynch Biracial Eight-Year-Old Boy” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, and Ana Kasparian ☮
The local police chief said, “These people need to be protected.” He was referring to the lynchers. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “The Great Flood” / truthdig / Chris Hedges / 09.10.2017 ☮
How many times will we rebuild Florida’s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevitable, will we walk away, leaving behind vast coastal dead zones? Will we retreat even further into magical thinking to cope with the fury we have unleashed from the natural world? Or will we respond rationally and radically alter our relationship to this earth that gives us life?
CANNABIS: “Kentucky Cannabis Freedom Coalition 3rd Anniversary Sign Holding for Cannabis Legalization” / Truth Against The Machine / Paula Martinez-Benge ☮
KCFC hosts a pro-marijuana legalization sign holding in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Hillary Clinton’s Book ‘What Happened’ is a Slap in America’s Face” / TBTV / Tim Black ☮
What Happened is the title of Hillary Clinton’s Biography/Memoir of the 2016 Presidential Campaign. Excerpts of Secretary Clinton’s book are critical of Bernie Sanders labeling him a “disruptor” and how she was eager to debate Bernie during the Primaries. Tim Black addressed the Hillary Clinton book and how it needlessly further stirs the pot on the Left and minimizes how Secretary Clinton loss the Election to Donald Trump.
ANTI-THEISM: “Mr. Deity and the Stuntman” / Mr. Deity ☮
Mr. Deity talks to a stuntman about filling in for a while.
PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “New Social Media Platform for Clinton Supporters Suffers DDoS attack” / RT America ☮
Peter Daou worked for Clinton and just made a new social media platform called Verrit.com with the tagline, ‘media for the 65.8 million,’ meaning it’s a social media platform for Clinton supporters. Clinton tweeted her support for this divisive site, and the site immediately suffered a massive DDoS attack.