[dissident]

Is the usual round of propaganda before all of the foreign military adventures in the last 20 years not good enough? What more could the government do than the "free" media? These politicians should find something more productive to do. Like dealing with peak oil and climate change.

[ralfy]

Interestingly enough, it's been the U.S. military issuing warnings regarding peak oil (via JOE reports) and the Pentagon warned about destabilizing effects of climate change almost a decade ago.

[Keith_McClary]

How Our Energy Needs Are Changing (NYT)

An example of:
Product Placement takes over the Media & subverts the News (John Oliver) (11 min video)
Aug. 5, 2014
“The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That’s not bullshit. It’s repurposed bovine waste.”

[PrestonSturges]

As I was saying in another thread, Steve King is using three classic themes from the Third Reich:

The War on Whites? Seriously, why doesn't he just say "Aryans?" Remember, this is what Hitler claimed, that the Socialist Jews and the Social Democrat party were trying to enslave white people.

King also uses "envy" and this was another classic theme of Nazi propaganda. It was used by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, and Robert Ley, and in the famous antisemitic children's book, The Poisonous Mushroom.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��Anger, envy, hatred, rage,
Are in the blood of the Jew,
-The Poisonous Mushroom (1938)

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Last year, the vagaries of life led me to chair a commission charged with examining the candidates for the admission to the Italian Chemists Association. It was a rather formal exam that was supposed to provide the successful applicants with the legal status necessary, for instance, for certifying chemical analyses. Overall, the applicants did poorly, but one of them, a young lady, did much better than the others. So much that I thought I could encourage her to do even better. So, let me tell you about a question I asked her during the examination. Me. Dear candidate, I would like to conclude this exam with a question that may be a little outside your area of expertise, but which I think will give you a chance to show your understanding of some basic concepts of chemistry. The question is: can .

[Tanada]

Unfortunately the example Ugo Bardi gives above is not the exception, but the rule. A great many young people 'know' things but only a rare few 'understand what they know' and are thus able to defend it intellectually.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'U')nfortunately the example Ugo Bardi gives above is not the exception, but the rule. A great many young people 'know' things but only a rare few 'understand what they know' and are thus able to defend it intellectually.

[vox_mundi]

American Madrasa: Voucher Schools Are Teaching Kids What Can Only Be Described as Right-Wing Propaganda

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The number of private schools that get taxpayer funds via school vouchers or tax credit scholarships is rising rapidly, but few states keep tabs on what these schools are actually teaching.

... In over 7,000 schools around the country participated in a voucher or a tax credit program, three quarters of the schools were religious and about 30 percent were using a curriculum provided by either Abeka, Accelerated Christian Education or Bob Jones.

In Indiana, for example, which has one of the more comprehensive voucher programs, in the last year alone, more than $16 million in taxpayer money were going to schools or scholarships that use one of these curricula. In the vast majority of states that have these programs there is zero oversight over what schools and voucher and tax credit programs are teaching. Quite literally zero.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]Klein: I decided to look specifically at those three because I found that they were the most popular curriculum sources being used in evangelical Christian schools. Abeka is affiliated with Pensacola Christian College is a really far right evangelical school in Florida. Bob Jones University Press was developed from professors at Bob Jones University, which famously lost its tax exempt status a few decades ago because it had banned interracial dating on campus. Accelerated Christian Education or ACE is probably the most extreme provider of curriculum of the three.

Its classrooms are really radical. There's no teacher providing lesson plans or having any type of back and forth with students. Instead, ACE students sit in cubicles where they're separated from the nearest peer. All day they're expected to sift silently through workbooks. There's no active teaching going on. And if a child has a question they have either an American flag or a Christian flag that they'll raise to get the attention of the class supervisor. And the supervisors don't need to have college degrees. In fact it’s considered a detriment for supervisors to have a background in education. Instead ACE prefers that they have a background in religion.

... Over the course of creating my database of all the schools that accept public funding through these programs I also came across five schools that use curriculum provided by a group called Applied Scholastics. And if you just took a cursory glance to be Applied Scholastics website you'd see that it's basically dedicated to spreading the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard who is the founder of the Church of Scientology. So while Applied Scholastics and the Church of Scientology say that they’re not directly connected, their ideas are deeply intertwined. For example, a spokesperson for the Church of Scientology told me that L. Ron Hubbard.developed the study method used by Applied Scholastics in order to proselytize and spread the word of his new church and teach Scientology to other people.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'I')nterestingly enough, it's been the U.S. military issuing warnings regarding peak oil (via JOE reports) and the Pentagon warned about destabilizing effects of climate change almost a decade ago.