Archives for October 2008

Several decades ago, the German pollster Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (who worked for a time at a pro-Nazi paper) put forward the notion of the Spiral of Silence, in part to explain why people in Germany went along with the Nazis: Observations made in one context spread to another and encouraged people either to proclaim their views […]

It’s remarkable that McCain and Obama agree on the Wall Street bailout, increasing the military, civil liberties restrictions (Patriot Act re-authorization, FISA), corporate trade deals, support for Israel, increased militarization of Afghanistan, threats (“all options on the table”) against Iran, against a single-payer health care system. On many of these issues, they are opposed by […]

It unfairly ignores Chuck Baldwin, but IndyKids otherwise puts mainstream media to shame in breaking down some of the positions of various candidates, esp see their PDF newspaper. Reminds me of Jesus saying of children: “the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Would be happy to link to other breakdowns of positions of […]

It unfairly ignores Chuck Baldwin, but http://www.indykids.net otherwise puts mainstream media to shame. Reminds me of Jesus saying of children “the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

See today’s GRITtv segment on voting issues including VotePact.

Democracy Now had a good segment this morning with Geroge Farah of Open Debates. I’m Twittering some of the VP “debate.”