A short examination of the conduct by MSNBC hosts including Ed Schultz, Melissa Harris Perry, Joy Reid related to the Snowden revelations, and why I won't watch their network again.
In political science, war is generally considered the most traumatic event a nation faces, often posing threats to a nation’s very existence. The challenge of surviving the war may, therefore, prove central to the life of a nation. However, national resilience during war has not yet been fully investigated. National Resilience during War: Refining the Decision-Making Model, by Eyal Lewin, searches for the mechanisms of national resilience through a deep inquiry into nine different case studies taken from the scenery of World War II. Following a multi-disciplinary attitude, a business management model is adopted (the PEST and SWOT model) and political, economic, social, and military-technological factors are analyzed for each of the case studies. The result is a comprehensive political decision-making model on a national level that can serve as a means for leaders to navigate successfully in geopolitical turbulence as well as for social scientists to better understand the defeats that different countries suffer and the victories that others demonstrate.
This research, however, goes further by refining the model and pointing to the exact combination of factors that are crucial for a nation's ability to win its wars. Using a qualitative comparative analysis technique, the exact combination is traced. The results emphasize that the winning scheme blends political and social factors together: leadership, positive psychology and an inspiring national ethos prove to be a necessary, though not a sufficient, conditional combination for success. National Resilience during War fills a significant gap in the literature on the politics of war.
(10)Open your eyes to the ways that the media tries to influence you with the most complete introduction to propaganda available, Techniques of Propaganda and Persuasion. Part I examines eleven of the most popular techniques, including Card Stacking, False Dilemmas, and the power of the Bandwagon. Part II explores the uses, both positive and negative, of propaganda and teaches the reader how to rationally examine propagandists' arguments. With over 100 illustrations and examples, this richly illustrated book will teach you to recognize propaganda in the world around you. Each highly informative chapter includes end-of-unit discussion questions that will spark conversations in any classroom. This is a classroom edition for students. Teacher Editions are available from the publisher, but are sold only to schools and teachers.
(1)Personality and the Foundations of Political Behavior is the first study in more than 30 years to investigate the broad significance of personality traits for mass political behavior. Drawing on the Big Five personality trait framework, Jeffery J. Mondak argues that attention to personality provides a valuable means to integrate biological and environmental influences in rich, nuanced theories and empirical tests of the antecedents of political behavior. Development of such holistic accounts is critical, Mondak contends, if inquiry is to move beyond simple "blank slate" environmental depictions of political engagement. Analyses examining multiple facets of political information, political attitudes, and participation reveal that the Big Five trait dimensions - openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability - produce both direct and indirect effects on a wide range of political phenomena.
"Hell's bein' outsourced!" Eustice Seeney discovered when he opened the first letter from Hades. Satan's about to lose his job as ruler of the underworld. The Powers that Be deemed that Hell is just not awful enough, and the Prince of Darkness has been slacking off in his devilish duties. He let a human escape! They're going to bring in aliens with horrors mankind has never seen. Lucifer doesn't want to get the boot, and knows he can make Hell more Hellish. He must find out how Eustice Seeney, the man who died twice, managed to escape. The Powers allow the Devil one chance to make things right in that wrong sort of way. Satan corresponds with Seeney, and arranges a trip to earth reminding him that: "The devil you know is better than the one you don't."
(2)The Sturmgewehr is the mother of all assault rifles and a major step in the development of the modern firearm. It combined low production costs with special ammunition, resulting in a cheap but a very effective full-automatic rifle. Fortunately, development and adoption was delayed by Hitler's objections, thus limiting the amount of guns that actually reached the front.
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"In this book, the noisy gadfly of U.S. education takes up the question of damage done in the name of schooling. Again he touches on many of the same questions and finds the same answers. Gatto is a bold and compelling critic in a field defined by politic statements, and from the first pages of this book he takes even unwilling readers along with him. In Weapons of Mass Instruction, he speaks movingly to readers' deepest desires for an education that taps their talents and frees frustrated ambitions. It is a challenging and extraordinary book that is a must read for anyone navigating their way through the school system." - Ria Julien - Winnipeg Free Press
John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. Weapons of Mass Instruction promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against schooling.
Here is a demonstration that the harm school inflicts is quite rational and deliberate, following high-level political theories constructed by Plato, Calvin, Spinoza, Fichte, Darwin, Wundt, and others, which contend the term “education” is meaningless because humanity is strictly limited by necessities of biology, psychology, and theology. The real function of pedagogy is to render the common population manageable.
Realizing that goal demands that the young be conditioned to rely upon experts, remain divided from natural alliances, and accept disconnections from the experiences that create self-reliance and independence.
Escaping this trap requires a different way of growing up, one Gatto calls “open source learning.” In chapters such as “A Letter to Kristina, my Granddaughter”; “Fat Stanley”; and “Walkabout:London,” this different reality is illustrated.
John Taylor Gatto taught for thirty years in public schools before resigning from school-teaching in the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York State’s official Teacher of the Year. Since then, he has traveled three million miles lecturing on school reform.
“Is it necessary to deceive the people for its own sake? It is the question that The art of political lying posed with some satirical flavour. This pamphlet is indeed “the art of making people believe in beneficial falsehoods for any good purpose.” This subtle art is based on some complicated calculations of which the text sets out the principles : avoid the lies from any possible verifications ; never overstepped the bounds of plausibility ; varying illusions to infinity ; streamline the production of political fakes by create "groups of liars”. This short treatise has retained all its relevance : the lie of today strangely looks like that of yesterday. The art of political lying brings a small but important contribution to contemporary political debate. (...) The analogy with any politicians or any political parties of the past, present, and future shall in no case be a coincidence.” – Jean-Jacques Courtine, « Le Mentir vrai ».
Legastheniker haben ein schweres Los: Sie müssen sich jeden Tag mit eigentlich vertrauten Zeichen intensiv und mit viel Mühe auseinandersetzen, um diesen Informationen abzuringen bzw. eigene Botschaften zu übermitteln. Ähnlich ergeht es jedem von uns bezüglich des öffentlichen Sprachgebrauchs. Um diesen in all seinen Facetten vollständig zu erfassen, muss man sich jeden Tag zwingen, aufmerksam den Akteuren zu lauschen, deren Beiträge in den Medien zu studieren sowie die mediale Verzerrung selbst nicht auszublenden.
Mit dieser Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, die politische Sprache der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu analysieren, ihre Strukturen und Mechanismen offen zu legen. Es gilt im täglichen Leben nicht nur politische Aussagen aufzunehmen, sondern Sprache zu reflektieren.
Die zugegebenermaßen etwas sperrige Formulierung lehnt sich an Klemperers Lingua Tertii Imperii, kurz LTI , an, einer gelungenen Analyse der Sprache des so genannten Dritten Reiches. Andererseits ergab sich aus der lateinischen Abkürzung eine ungewollte Anspielung auf die Begrifflichkeit „Lese-Rechtschreibschwäche“, die metaphorisch aber dann doch passt, sind wir doch im politischen Sprachgebrauch alle so etwas wie Legastheniker. Außerdem wird heutzutage alles etikettiert. Und mit diesem Titel bekommt hier die Sprache selbst ihren Markennamen, ihr Etikett verpasst. Daher wird für den öffentlichen und speziell den politischen Sprachgebrauch der BRD, also die Sprache der Zweiten Republik, im Folgenden die Abkürzung L.R.S. verwendet.
Die L.R.S. ist aber nicht um ihrer selbst Willen Gegenstand dieser, vielmehr wird der Versuch gewagt, anhand der Sprache ein wenngleich unvollständiges, so doch aber umfassendes Panoptikum der politischen Verfasstheit der gegenwärtigen deutschen Republik zu erarbeiten. Mit der deutschen Sprache existiert eine Chronistin, die unbestechlich und unnahbar die gesellschaftlichen Prozesse einer Nation durch die Geschichte hindurch begleitet und dokumentiert. In unseren Nachrichten, Gesprächen, in unseren Briefen, Büchern, selbst in unseren Träumen, in unseren tiefsten Geheimnissen ist sie das Medium von Kommunikation und Selbstreflexion. Überall ist sie anwesend und protokolliert gleichzeitig all das, was wir zu wissen glauben oder zu verdrängen suchen. Manches ist uns nicht bewusst, dennoch findet dies bei ihr den entsprechenden Niederschlag.
So sagt es einiges über unsere Gesellschaft und über die Politik aus, wenn soziale Kürzungen als Reform, dann aber Reformgegner als Blockierer bezeichnet werden. Idealisten werden zu Gutmenschen desavouiert, andere mindestens zu Wutbürgern degradiert. Politik und Gesellschaft spiegeln sich immer in der Sprache.
Die L.R.S. ist aber nicht um ihrer selbst Willen Gegenstand dieser, vielmehr wird der Versuch gewagt, anhand der Sprache ein wenngleich unvollständiges, so doch aber umfassendes Panoptikum der politischen Verfasstheit der gegenwärtigen deutschen Republik zu erarbeiten. Mit der deutschen Sprache existiert eine Chronistin, die unbestechlich und unnahbar die gesellschaftlichen Prozesse einer Nation durch die Geschichte hindurch begleitet und dokumentiert. In unseren Nachrichten, Gesprächen, in unseren Briefen, Büchern, selbst in unseren Träumen, in unseren tiefsten Geheimnissen ist sie das Medium von Kommunikation und Selbstreflexion. Überall ist sie anwesend und protokolliert gleichzeitig all das, was wir zu wissen glauben oder zu verdrängen suchen. Manches ist uns nicht bewusst, dennoch findet dies bei ihr den entsprechenden Niederschlag.
Die vorliegende Analyse öffentlichen Sprachgebrauchs erfolgt, um die Gesellschaft der zweiten deutschen Demokratie aus einem einerseits ungewohnten, andererseits aber täglich vertrauten Blickwinkel taxieren zu können.
