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| Consuming Kids: explosive growth of child marketing post deregulation | |
| Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 850 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 5 | |
| Creationists want to put God back in classroom | |
| Description: One creationist in Louisiana is striving to take the Bible from the church and into the classroom, arguing that it is un-American not to allow students to learn different views of how the world was created. While it is not illegal to teach creationism in public schools, most science teachers opt to teach evolution alone. Dave Prentice wants to change that. | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 774 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Hardball: U.S. spends more and gets less healthcare than any other country | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 779 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Arianna Huffington Discusses Glen Beck, Fearmonger-In-Chief, on Olbermann | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 775 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4 | |
| PBS Washington Week: Gov Healthcare will have higher premiums | |
| In this online-only extra, Washington Week moderator Gwen Ifill and panel take your questions and discuss the recently-unveiled Senate health reform bill, the President's trip to Asia, the political situation on the ground in Afghanistan and the return of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 761 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| 16 Days to Copenhagen Climate Summit (featuring Gael García Bernal) | |
| The countdown is on! | |
| Date: 21 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 815 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Naomi Klein and Ana Marie Cox discuss Sarah Palin on The Joy Behar Show | |
| Naomi Klein and Ana Marie Cox discuss Sarah Palin on The Joy Behar Show. November 18, 2009 | |
| Date: 20 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 781 - Votes: 4 - Rating: 4 | |
| Why Are So Many Media Conservatives So Obsessed With Rape? | |
| http://mediamatters.org/research/2009... Conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage frequently employ rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. For example, Beck said that New Yorkers are | |
| Date: 20 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 758 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 3.67 | |
| More homeowners on brink of foreclosure | |
| New report shows that more than 14% of all US mortgages are now either delinquent or in foreclosure. And for the first time the number of prime loans at risk outnumbers the subprime loans. Not good to say the least. Copyright MSNBC 2009 CNBC Prime mortgage delinquencies rise unemployment FHA | |
| Date: 20 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 765 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| Army suicides on the rise | |
| Reminds me of Viet Nam... so sad. Most of them are really young. Copyright MSNBC 2009 Army suicides soldier soldiers suicide rise increase PTSD post traumatic stress U.S. military Afghanistan Pakistran | |
| Date: 20 November 2009 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 769 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |