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The Turning Point – 04/21/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Old Time Religion Midway between Passover and Easter — Sin, guilt, torture, patriarchy, stonings, passive obedience to authority and mass murder… Gimme that old time religion! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed

The Turning Point – 04/14/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Hold The Presses! “When you wake up, get up. And when you get up, do something.” – Martin Luther King “I have a dream…” – Martin Luther King Are we asleep or awake — dreaming or acting consciously? How …

The Turning Point – 04/07/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) “Entitlements” or Just Human Decency? Are selfishness and arrogance now the basic requirments for political advancement”? Is cruelty to the old, the sick, children and the needy the new morality? …My days as rookie Welfare worker on The Lower …

The Turning Point – 03/31/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Courses Of Action Martin Luther King or Malcolm X? We are not living in India and the people running America are not British gentlemen… A discussion of the state of things in our country now and what courses of action are left …

The Turning Point – 03/24/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Sticks and Stones… Obama a) Unveils a national website for an anti-bullying campaign and tells bullied kids they’ve “Got a friend in the White House”. Then, b) He issues a statement giving his Presidential seal of approval to the treatment of Bradley …

The Turning Point – 03/17/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Japan: The Fragile And Ephemeral Quality Of Life Thanks to technology — with both its worst and best aspects on display at this moment– we are presented with the unavoidable fact that every human being on the planet is …

The Turning Point – 03/10/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Bigotry, Intolerance, Exclusivity… From the Nazis to the US House of Representatives and all over the United States (and good part of the rest of the world)…  It seems like history is going backwards… We’re all in the same …

The Turning Point – 03/03/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Uprisings and Revolutions Does every uprising and revolution, whether small or large, need a hero to succeed? Is it possible for a great groundswell of popular change to succeed without a great charismatic leader? Asking questions about the universal …

The Turning Point – 02/24/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Auschwitz Memorial The directors of The Auschwitz Memorial are taking steps to make it more relevant to a generation for whom The Holocaust is “ancient history”. Do we need such active memorials so far beyond the events that occurred? Absolutely …

The Turning Point – 02/17/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Hyperactivity Disorder, ad nauseum. How convenient for parents and teachers to unload their own failures and lack of parental responsibility onto their kids and, incidentally, keep therapists busy drug companies rich. Too many people who …

The Turning Point – 02/10/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Revolution! Funny (and sad) how not one country anywhere around the Eygyptian Democracy protestors–not Israel, not one of their Arab neighbors, not Hamas, not The Palestinain authority–not even the inventors of Democracy, the USA, wants this revolution to succeed. …

The Turning Point – 02/03/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Go Ahead Punk, Make My Day… What is it about age that fears youth so much? What is this universal struggle between tyranny and freedom? Its as if the old and powerful believe there is just so much life …

The Turning Point – 01/20/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) The Spirit of The Sixties Re-awakens As things get worse in America; as the rich and powerful take away our food, our houses, our jobs, our money, our basic services and freedoms, we can detect a turning of consciousness …

The Turning Point – 01/13/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) America Is Dangerously Ill Hate speech, dangerous political rhetoric, out-and-out violence. But to cure the body, you have to know where the poison is coming from… Today we do a summary of symptoms and a beginning attempt to identify …