Brigham Young University faculty member Stuart Parker helps us discern Mormon doctrine from folklore as we discuss Joseph Smith’s assassination, the Mountain Meadows massacre, retroactive baptism, polygamy and racism in both the mainstream and splinter Mormon groups. Plus suggestions from the Quorum of Twelve on how to break your masturbation habit, and the Church of Latter Day Saints in film and TV.
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Caustic Soda: Mormonism
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Caustic Soda: Ghost Towns
Some of the most wretched and caustic ghost towns are discussed, including “blue sky mine” Wittenoom, Picher’s chat piles, Oradour-sur-Glane’s nazi massacre legacy, the dioxin-tainted roads of Times Beach, Centralia’s ongoing coal fire, and more. All this and pop culture too! PS – Don’t worry Soda Jerks, we didn’t forget Chernobyl – it will get its own episode at some point!
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NEWZ005 Halftime in America | Newz of the World
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Caustic Soda: Christmas
Was the star of Bethlehem a supernova? What raunchy pagan festivals did Christianity co-opt for Jesus’ birthday? How many butchered children did Saint Nick resurrect, and who was St Nick’s demonic sidekick? Is Santa Claus just Odin One-Eye rebranded? Also, tragic reindeer death! Watch out deipnophobes – it’s a Very Caustic Christmas!
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Third Paradigm: 3P-042 You’ve Been Framed!
Examines, ala the media watchgroup FAIR, three examples of how reporters frame the question in order to shift our perspective on the facts. One is a quote from Mark Hosenball, Special Correspondent for Newsweek, speaking on NPR’s Talk of the Nation about the Inspector General’s report on interrogation methods. Two is the winner of Survival International’s Most Racist Article of the Year Award. Third is the defense of Van Jones in Ryan Witt’s Political Buzz Examiner, saying that he was stupid but not evil.
Reads the poem, "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller, to the music of Autumn Project with This We Take With Us. Describes the effect of myopia in my own formative years. Plays the Onion News Network’s "Who Should Be Held Accountable for Minotaur Maze Interrogations?" Updates the indigenous Amazonian situation since the Bagua massacre, and the media war against them. This includes the editorial in a mainstream newspaper suggesting that the natives be bombed with napalm. Proposes that Van Jones, now that he’s been heckled out as green jobs advisor, become the highest profile spokesperson the 911 truth movement has had, with all of us behind him…at the suggestion of Glenn Beck.
Read the show transcript while listening, and view our images, videos, and links on the Third Paradigm website:
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The role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide
Linda Melvern is an investigative journalist and author. A world expert on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, she was a consultant to the prosecution team at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the military one case. She is an Honorary Professor of the Department of International Politics (University of Wales - Aberystwyth).
(May 6, 2009 at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
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StoryCorps 111: Memories of the Bath School Disaster
In this episode, memories of the worst school massacre in U.S. history. It happened in Bath, Michigan in 1927. You’ll hear two survivors talk about that day. To hear more stories visit http://storycorps.org/listen. If you’d like to write to participants you can do so at podcast@storycorps.org. To make a donation visit http://www.storycorps.org/support.
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