#{ gabriel cohen chang }

[hadleyberry]

Oh of course! And cool, so you're kind of almost like a New Year's baby, then! Just not like right exactly on New Year's. Close enough though, in my book. I think with some of the other major retailers making that decision to just close the whole day on Thanksgiving, instead of being open like they used to, could be what's keeping more people from going shopping on a family holiday. Maybe it'll get to a point where the whole mall will close for the whole day, and then you won't ever have to work on Thanksgiving again. I hate to say it, especially since my dads don't generally watch the games, but I blame football. It must have started because all the football fans want to have dinner done and ready so they can watch the games. Honestly, I choose to watch the parade in the morning and then the dog show right after. That's so nice of you to do that for your employees, though. More managers should be like you. And that would be awesome! I believe it runs until the week before Christmas, basically in enough time to get them sorted so that they can be distributed to kids, I think they have to wrap them too? I'm not so sure on that. I would think they have to be wrapped, I mean that's the best part, getting a surprise and opening to see what it is!

At least you acknowledge the difference. I've heard of kids just getting like one big gift to cover both if it's close enough to Christmas. But mine's ten days after New Year's so it kind of follows the trend of another party a week after the last one, it's kind of great. And yeah, it was actually kind of emptier than I expected, especially on Thanksgiving. But maybe it's a good thing there wasn't as many people? I'm choosing to believe it meant they all had somewhere to be during the holiday and not just out roaming the streets. Oh, you guys do that too? I swear, my parents always do dinner at like 2 in the afternoon so I skip lunch on Thanksgiving when I'm actually home for it. And it's not really a big deal to me, working on the holiday. I know others like to have it off so I usually take the shifts so my employees can be with their families or whatever they planned on doing. And yeah, you know what? I might grab a couple of toys next time I'm at work and bring them to you for the drive.

[lottiexevans]

text messages || @gabrielcohen-chang

Lottie: HOW HAVE I NOT HEARD THAT LADY GAGA IS PLAYING HARLEY IN FOLIE À DEUX?!?!?! Lottie: HOW HAVE WE NOT TALKED ABOUT THIS?! Lottie: Also - side note - how have you been?

[oliviaxwestons]

Honestly, if you're willing to watch her for a couple of days that would be amazing. She's got homework and stuff that she still needs to keep up with despite her suspension, so at the very least she'll be occupied for a while, but she does love video games. Especially the zombie hunting and fighting games. Which my parents absolutely judge me for, but I don't care. I'm not going to stop her from doing something she enjoys, but I do limit her to just a few hours a day if she wants to play. She spends most of her time either reading, drawing, playing video games or running around outside. I'll never understand the companies that don't allow a sort of 'friends and family' discount as long as it's not being abused; it could even be half of what the employee discount is.

Schools have definitely gotten a lot harsher with the punishments than when I was a kid. I went to a private school with a zero-tolerance fighting policy, but I never saw anyone get suspended for that long if it did happen. The best I can figure is that they're just trying to make some sort of statement to really sell this whole 'zero tolerance' policy and they're using my daughter to make said statement. I'm not happy about it, but at least after this hopefully she won't get into any more fights.

@gabrielcohen-chang​

[girlactionfigure]

How a Kabbalist Accidentally Became an Arsonist: A True Tale of the Rabbi who Burned Down the Jewish Ghetto of Frankfurt in 1711 🔥🧵

By 1704, when he was invited to become Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt, Rabbi Naphtali Katz had gained renown throughout Ashkenaz as a Ba'al Shem��a shamanic healer, amulet writer, and kabbalist.

His tenure in Frankfurt was brief. It ended on Jan. 14th, 1711, when a fire spread from his home & reduced the Judengasse—then the largest Jewish community in Germany—to ashes.

He was arrested by German authorities on claims of arson & witchcraft and was held for five months before being exiled from Frankfurt. 

Soon after the fire, this poster was hung by Christians throughout the Judengasse. The left side depicts the Jews fleeing the flames.

The right side reads (in part):  "Alas! The happiest [and] most unhappy day On which at Frankfurt am Main The Jewish quarter having been set ablaze With Rabbi Naphtali the Pole being the cause Within the space of 24 hours burned to the foundations." 

How exactly did Rabbi Naphtali cause this urban wildfire? Johann Jacob Schudt, in his "Jewish Oddities"(1714, Frankfurt) records several rumors. One popular account blamed his kabbalistic malpractice...

"The Rabbi, who was a great kabbalist, had himself set the fire to show his students how he could extinguish the fire...(but) in his haste to put it out he had summoned the Prince of Fire instead of the Prince of Water & that is why the fire grew." Oops! 

This is a painting made by the German Jewish artist Johann Nothnagel entitled, "Rabbi Naphtali Cohen with two Schoolchildren" (1772). It portrays this scene of angelic conjuring & accidental arson. 

The Magen David image before him was part of a popular kabbalistic recipe for extinguishing fires. The radiant and hovering disk = the angelic Prince of Fire. Smoke emerges from the top right & the student's faces flash concern. 

Nothnagel made a copy of this painting a few years later with one significant change: The abstract disk is replaced with a more concrete angelic figure.

Notice how this version has been modeled after another scene of angelic conjuring: Rembradnt's "Faust" (1652).

In a sort of full-circle, Rembrandt was likely modeling his portrait on tropes of Kabbalah popular during his time.

Who is the Prince of Fire (Sa'ar Ha-Esh)? Midrashic sources identify him with the archangel Gabriel. "Michael is the angel of snow and Gabriel of fire; this one does not extinguish that one, and that one does not harm this one." (Shir Ha-Shirim Rabbah 3:11) 

Sefer Ha-Razim, a magic text from the time of the Midrash, identifies two other angelic fire-archons: "Yabniel is in charge of all things concerning the igniting & extinguishing of fire... Deleqiel is in charge of flames of fire, to kindle or quench them."

Rashi (1040-1105) already reports that summoning these angels was uniquely difficult.

Interestingly, a very similar story to Rabbi Naphtali's arson is told about another Ashkenazi Ba'al Shem—The Ba'al Shem Tov/Besht. This version is from "In Praise of the Besht" (Kopust, 1814).

A second version of this story is told by a later hassidic master.

This incident would have occurred not long after 1711 (the Besht is born in 1698 & these tales occur in his youth). And, reportedly, the Besht knew of Rabbi Naphtali & mocked his ascetic model of practical Kabbalah.

The upshot? Don't start a fire to prove you can put it out + When Kabbalah is no longer theoretical but also "practical," its relationship to the elements and society is more acute & mistakes have material & historical consequences.

[carterjhudson]

Yeah, but I knew what I was getting into when I chose the career. Which, if it weren't for my love of art and the fact it was an art teacher who inspired me to become a teacher, I'd probably be in a different profession. At least with teaching art, it's a smaller class load and I don't really assign large essays, just the occasional short paper when the course is about a specific artist's work. Hey, maybe if you're really thinking about making this a thing, I could even pitch in a little bit of help in my free time. If you found a place, I could even do some freelance work painting some gaming murals on the walls and stuff.

Yeah, that's always sounded like the downside to teaching. If they grade things after school and stuff, how does that qualify as off time? And it sucks they don't pay you guys for that kind of work, not that I know anything about how much time it actually is or anything but just going off of being a student, man. That's a lot going on, especially in high school. Elementary only has one class, high school teachers have multiple classes they gotta worry about, that's a lot. Yeah, it's definitely a lot to look into before rushing to open any kind of storefront, that's for sure. But it's at least something to look into! And we all know this town could do with a few more hangout places like arcades around.

[aurora-daily]

How Aurora awed Billie Eilish, met Leonard Cohen’s lover and sang her way out of the Norwegian woods

The secret star of Frozen II on why she chose music over molecular science – and the reason ‘art without politics is a bit boring’

AURORA for The Telegraph, interviewed by Neil McCormick (May 26th, 2024)

“I’ve always known how to sing,” says Aurora Aksnes, in her soft, clear Norwegian accent. “I never really get tired. I can sing for 12 hours. And have a pint of Guinness. And still sing!”

There is something very special about the 27-year-old singer, songwriter and producer known simply as Aurora. Her music is extraordinary, but in person she is enchanting too: warm, witty, intense and slightly unearthly. She dresses with colourfully eccentric flair, and her wide eyes lock on to yours as if she is trying to peer into your soul, or let you see into hers.

The youngest of three sisters, she was raised by her mother, a midwife, and father, a salesman, in remote western Norway as a “person of the forest”, as she puts it, playing piano, writing songs and dancing from an early age. Her intimate and original compositions soon found an audience online and, at 18, she was given a record deal by Decca. Her breakthrough 2015 single, Runaway, has had more than 870 million streams on Spotify (where she has more than 12 million monthly listeners) and in excess of 640 million views on YouTube. Among her early fans was a young Billie Eilish, who has since said “When I saw Aurora, something inside me clicked, like, that is what I want to do.” 

While Aurora tends not to trouble the weekly singles charts, her atmospheric music has appeared on the soundtracks to countless video games, TV series and films – and that’s her you can hear singing Into the Unknown, the most irresistible earworm in Frozen II, alongside Idina Menzel. Or you might know her from the 2015 John Lewis Christmas ad, for which she invested an interpretation of Oasis’s Half the World Away with her signature gentle intensity.

Yet her true talent is most evident in her own poetic songs that range from the intimate to the epic and provide a showcase for a clear, high, expressive voice that seems able to go anywhere she wants it to, in productions that blend folk, classical, techno and pop. Enya, Björk and Kate Bush are clear influences, but you could throw into that mix the world-funk blend of Peter Gabriel, the shiny electronic dance spirit of Robyn and the synth psychedelia of The Chemical Brothers. “It’s very hard when people ask what kind of music I do,” she says. “I just like to say I make good music. It’s something I bring from within, like a human organ. I’m an organ donor!”

Released next month, Aurora’s fourth album What Happened to the Heart? is her strongest yet – a vividly emotional set grappling with loss, grief and recovery that somehow shines with a spirit of positivity. “It is not a breakup album,” she insists. “Well, not in the traditional sense of breaking up with a lover. But it has a lot of the same sentiments: saying goodbye, accepting change. It’s about the healing process, and how we deal with pain.” Although she has previously claimed that she doesn’t write from autobiographical experience, she acknowledges that, on this occasion, personal upset (about which she doesn’t wish to go into detail) was involved.

“Usually, I don’t write when I’m sad,” she says. “I don’t want to write in a way that worships the pain; I feel I should heal first, and then I can put light and wisdom in there. But this time it was very urgent. I really felt the need to pour out a lot.”

Yet if the new album draws on individual sadness, it also taps into Aurora’s sense that “something is seriously wrong in the world. While I was writing and recording, wars were breaking out. I could not contain this anger and rage on behalf of the underdog. The music got quite wild and dark.” 

As her audience grows, Aurora considers it her responsibility to speak out about the issues that matter to her, whether the state of the environment or LGBTQ+ rights. “It’s not the 1940s any more, a modern star should be in touch with the world,” she says, adding, “Art without politics is a bit boring.”

When Aurora was young, she wanted to be a scientist, perhaps in the field of “molecular technology”, she says – “I still might; life is long!” – but then music took over. “I listened to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, because that’s all the music we had in my childhood home, in the forest countryside in Norway. So when I started writing, I thought that music should say something big.”

She notes that during the 1980s when Cohen’s career was failing in the rest of the world, he was sustained by his popularity in Norway. “He had something otherworldly, that felt like an ancient reminder of kindness and grace in a world that can be very ungraceful and unkind.” Aurora tells me with delight that she knew Marianne Ihlen – Cohen’s lover and the subject of his classic 1967 song, So Long Marianne – who died in 2016, aged 81. “She was from the same village as my grandparents. She was so beautiful.”

There is something discernibly Norwegian about Aurora’s own music, full of allusions to long, dark winter days and the return of the light brought by spring. “It’s funny how deeply the sadness is rooted in the darkness,” she says. “You hear it from way back in our history, in every children’s song; they are all super sad, with heavy melodies, a dead mother, a dead child, a troll in the mountains that’s lonely. When the darkness comes, we hibernate. I read and sleep and cook and light candles, I ask of myself nothing. When everything blossoms, I write a lot; from February to October is [when I’m at] my most creative. Even though the winter months are hard, it’s worth it, because spring is just bliss.”

She believes that music is the ideal medium not only to express that bliss, but to inspire it, too. “I think it reminds people that they have power and hope and potential,” she says. “There’s so much fear in the media, and it makes us very easy to control, because any animal or human in fear makes bad decisions. Music can speak about the same things, but it’s fuelled by love.”

When I point out that images of death and mortality haunt the new album, Aurora laughs – “Well, I am Norwegian!” – before insisting that, ultimately, she won’t allow the gloomy state of the planet to crush her positive spirit. “I’m not pessimistic, but I can sound like it,” she says. “It’s an odd world, that’s all I really want to say. I find it very strange, but also very beautiful.”

[theimpossiblescheme]

for you tread on my dreams - playlists for miauzara and victor, for Swing Day of @bombawife’s OC week

01. moon on a golden thread - arrowwood | 02. how do you feel today - gabrielle aplin | 03. pocketful of poetry - mindy gledhill | 04. todo pasa - carla morrison | 05. dust to dust - the civil wars | 06. symbol - adrianne lenker | 07. ravens in the library - s.j. tucker | 08. dragon’s lair - yuta bandoh | 09. sometimes the buds never flower - push puppets | 10. winter - tori amos | 11. to the fairies they draw near (part II) - loreena mckennitt | 12. the alternate world waltz - lisa debenedictis | 13. the poet - the arcadian wild | 14. hammer horror - kate bush | 15. the flight of the blue fly - amélie original london cast | 16. swan lake suite, op. 20 - pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky | 17. painting by chagall - the weepies | 18. abo oyoun garee’a - abdel halim hafez | 19. a change in me - toni braxton [listen]

01. i am a rock - simon and garfunkel | 02. eleanor rigby - the brothers comatose | 03. rainy days and mondays - the carpenters | 04. woods - bon iver | 05. stone wall, stone fence - gregory and the hawk | 06. since i left you - the avalanches | 07. berceuse op. 16 no. 1 (maïkiv) - boris christoff | 08. i already miss you - the kooks | 09. high hopes - pink floyd | 10. life goes on - bryce vine | 11. backyard - of monsters and men | 12. you were a kindness - the national | 13. bird on the wire - leonard cohen | 14. theseus - the oh hellos | 15. cinnamon - tamino | 16. read all about it, pt. III - emeli sandé | 17. stray italian greyhound - vienna teng | 18. this too shall pass - danny schmidt | 19. over the garden wall - jack jones and the blasting company [listen]

[ashfordvalleyhq]

Happy Birthday, Gabriel Cohen-Chang! (@gabrielcohen-chang)

Today he turns 33! If you see him around, be sure to wish him a Happy Birthday!

[carterjhudson]

Dude, you know that any other time, I would definitely be up to chat on a show so awesome... but I hate to admit that I haven't had a chance to watch it yet! It's on my list to watch during winter break when I'm off work for a week though, I'll probably binge watch it over a couple of days during then. And I've still gotta watch that new Scott Pilgrim series, too. So many things to catch up on, honestly I don't know what it is about the first half of the school year, I just get so busy with everything. As far as waiting on the next season though, I gotta say, why does Netflix always take so long just to put out a new season of a show? The majority of their series only have like ten episodes a season, and sure I know the writers' strike and then the actors' strike caused recent delays, but what's the excuse for before then, you know?

Okay, I know the first season like just aired a few months ago and it takes a while to film a show like this, but I can't wait for season two of One Piece! Just everything about it was great, the cast, the costumes, everything was just amazing and so fun to watch. I've already watched the first season like ten times, and now I'm sitting here watching the anime all the way through again just to tide me over, and trust me that's not easy. The early anime episodes are not the greatest, the live action made it much more entertaining. If someone has seen the show, please come rave with me about how great it is.

[the-witching-ash]

Glee Masterlist E-L

A-C, M-T

Name: Elliot Berry

Faceclaim: Larry Saperstein

Love Interest: Sugar Motta

Story: Staus Quo

Name: Elphie Jones

Faceclaim: Zendaya

Love interest: Adrien Bieste

Story: Unlimited

Name: Esther Berry

Faceclaim: Gideon Aldon

Love interest: N/A

Story: A Cautionary Tale

Name: Ezra Berry

Faceclaim: Lucas Gabriel

Love Interests: Cobin & Simone Adams

Story: Multi

Name: Faith Hudson

Faceclaim: Julia Lester

Story: Status Quo

Name: George Bieste

Faceclaim: Joel Courtney

Love Interest: Sam Evans

Story: Free

Name: Hayden Holiday-Motta

Faceclaim: Kit Conner

Love Interest: Bonnie Pierce

Story: Shake It Off

Name: Henry Schuester

Faceclaim: Tom Holland

Love Interests: Artie Abrams & Tina Cohen-Chang

Story: Start Of Something New

Name: Janet Howell

Faceclaim: Ariel Winter

Love Interest: Quinn Fabrey

Story: Damn It, Janet

Name: Lorelai Zesis

Faceclaim: Beanie Feldstien

Love Interest: Mike Chang

Story: Don’t Rain On My Parade

[dirty-numb-angelgirl]

hii, i’m gabrielle!! i’m 19 and from canada! i’m obsessed with music, films, and literature and talk about them to an irritating excess.

my favourite bands/musicians (though it changes by the day) are the clash, pulp, radiohead, the smiths, talking heads, leonard cohen, david bowie, fiona apple, oasis, blur, lou reed/velvet underground, pavement, fontaines d.c., the cure, björk, patti smith, jimi hendrix and hole!!

my favourite directors are martin scorsese, sidney lumet, gregg araki, spike lee, david lynch, david cronenberg, paul schrader, quentin tarantino, stanley kubrick, david fincher, harmony korine, bruce mcdonald and elaine may!! (actors-wise i do not play about al pacino, winona ryder, phillip seymour hoffman or chloe sevigny)

my favourite authors are fyodor dostoevsky, bret easton ellis, kurt vonnegut, jean paul sartre, j.g. ballard, vladimir nabokov, oscar wilde, sylvia plath and william s. burroughs

consumption of art aside, i’m passionate about human rights/social issues, smoking, black coffee, tinned fish, queer culture/history, academics, high fashion (esp. alexander mcqueen, martin margiela, or john galliano), tiramisu, cats, anthony bourdain, etc!! generally will use this blog to archive anything i find particularly compelling in the other annuls of the internet/research.

no dnis because i’d like to experience tumblr as the lawless land it was intended to be (unless you’re racist or a pedophile or what have you, in which case please do not interact)

[lottiexevans]

text messages 📲 lottie x gabe

LOTTIE: Good morning, starshine. The Earth says hello! 🌞 [ A few minutes later ] LOTTIE: ...how much do you love me? 👀

[dariarutherford]

Daria: oh see when you said that YOU were gonna have to try it I thought mr gabe was going to actually venture into the world of baking. 😆 Daria: honestly I don't know, but I've seen people do similar things to make cake pops and have tried those methods myself and they worked out so we're just gonna take a shot in the dark and roll with it. fingers crossed and send all the good vibes my way please and thank you! Daria: do it gabe! doooo it! take a leap into the culinary world of cooking and baking and food making!👍🏾👍🏾

Gabe: um, i can share the video i'm watching for it? because no way in hell am i trying this lol i'm not a baker, that's what you're for 😝 Gabe: if it's half baked already though, does it really count as a batter? i'm really just asking because i have no idea. you can absolutely ignore the question, i was just curious! also between you and youtube i'm extremely hungry. i might just have to brave the kitchen and try to make something

[vintagelasvegas]

Riviera Hotel & Casino 1955-2015

Construction of the Riviera, 1954. Photo: Las Vegas News Bureau.

Note: The timeline is a work in progress. Several details below focus on exterior features of the building for the sake of dating photos.

‘52: Casa Blanca Hotel proposed, to be financed by H. Silbert, Gensberg bros; mortgage held by S. Cohen. The hotel would be leased to second party operators whose applicants include L.B. “Doc” Merman of Hollywood, W. “Lefty Clark” Bischoff, and group from Miami. (Most names would change in ‘53.)

‘53: Sep 22 – Casa Blanca gaming license granted to D & M Gensburg, RH Bailey, Harpo & Gummo Marx, J Goldman, H Robbin, M. Saul.

‘54: Construction begins May 27. Building owners are D, M & L Gensburg, H Silbert (25% ea). Hotel name changed to Riviera shortly after construction begins. Architects: Roy France & Son (Miami), J. Maher Weller (Las Vegas).

‘55: Hotel opened April 20. Original neon lighting and sign work by Western Electric Displays Co (Western Neon). Fall: Flamingo managers Greenbaum, Goffstein, Berman, Atol, etc. take over management.

‘56: Western Airlines office at the hotel, with airplane sign seen in front of the hotel from 6/56 to 8/61.

‘57: Second sign installed c. Mar-Aug.

‘58: Greenbaum killed in Dec.

‘60: Becket building, aka Mediterranean Tower South I addition; architect W. Becket.

‘62: Lanai rooms, two wings on the on east and south of the property, opened summer '62. Julius Gabriele, architect.

‘63: Suite construction, north tower.

‘65: Building addition on NW corner.

‘66: Mediterranean Tower South II addition; third sign installed in Jul.

‘69: Second porte-cochère.

‘73: AITS Inc (Riklis) purchases Riviera.

‘74: Larger attraction board on third sign.

‘75: Monte Carlo Tower (17 fl) addition.

‘77: San Remo Tower (6 fl, 243 rooms) replaces Lanai rooms south wing.

‘81: Third sign height raised.

‘86: Food court and billboard addition.

‘87: Third sign altered, “Riviera” lowered below the oval.

‘88: Monaco Tower (24 fl) addition; demolition of Lanai rooms east wing.

‘89: Mirror facade over billboard addition, design by Nikita Zukov

‘90: Casino expansion to the street over former parking lot; third sign relocated to Paradise Rd.

‘98: New sign on NW corner.

Closed May 4, 2015. Demolished in 2016.

2005 Property Map.

Sources include: Announce Plans For New Strip Hotel. Review-Journal, 12/19/52; Another Hotel For The Strip. Review-Journal, 3/3/53; 2 Planned Strip Hotels Granted Gaming Permits. Review-Journal, 9/22/53; Plans Move Forward for New Strip Hotel. Review-Journal, 5/23/54; Groundbreaking. Review-Journal, 5/27/54 p1; Hotel Riviera. Review-Journal, 12/21/54; Attends Ground Breaking. Review-Journal, 2/26/62; SEC filing, 10/1/97; Emporis.

Construction, 1955. Harold P. Matosian/AP Photo. 

Postcard circa '55

Postcard circa '60 after completion of the Becket building, or South wing.

Postcard, early 70s. South wing was extended in '66.

Postcard circa '81. The Monte Carlo tower ('75) can be seen, and the height of the sign had been raised.

Postcard circa 90s.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

The Brain Washing of My Dad (Family Non-Fiction Film) | Real Stories

Jen Senko, a documentary filmmaker, looks at the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, nonpolitical Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio on a lengthened commute to work.

In trying to understand how this happened, she not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also uncovers some of the forces behind it: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon to create a media for the GOP; the Lewis Powell Memo, urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion – especially the universities – the media and the courts; and under Reagan, the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine – all of which helped to change the entire country's direction and culture, misinformed millions, divided families and even the country itself.

From The Brain Washing of My Dad (2015)

___________________________________

9:35 The 1960’s: The Right is Pronounced Dead

Reagan

10:00 Claire Conner author of “Wrapped in the flag: What I learned growing up in America’s Radical Right, how I escaped, and why my story matters today.”

The John Birch Society

10:40 Ike

11:18 David Brock author of “The Republican Noise Machine. Right Wing media and how it corrupts democracy” author of “Confessions of a Right-Wing hit man”

Accuracy in Media – Reed Irvine

12:15 1970 – Meet Roger Ailes The Memo: A Plan for putting the GOP on TV news

12:26 Craig Unger Journalist and author during interview with Bill Moyers, PBS

12:45 Gabriel Sherman author of “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News – and divided a country”

15:35 Reese Schonfeld Founding President and CEO of CNN

16:46 Richard Nixon – The Politics of Division

16:50 Rick Perlstein Historian and journalist author of “Nixonland: the rise of a president and the fracturing of America”

17:11 George Lakoff author of “Don’t Think of and Elephant!: the essential guide for progressives”

17:58 The Southern Strategy

18:20 Noam Chomsky Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT

19:38 Conservative Populism

20:00 1971 The Confidential Lewis Powell Memo

20:22 Thom Hartman #1 Progressive Radio Talk Show Host in the U.S.

20:40 Jeff Cohen Associate Professor of Journalism, Ithaca College co-author of “The Way Things Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error”

21:30 Noam Chomsky author of “OCCUPY: Reflections on Class War, Rebellion, and Repression”

23:00 Some Effects of the Lewis Powell Memo

Confidential Memorandum August 23, 1971 Attack on American Free Enterprise System https://archive.org/details/PowellMemorandum-AttackOnAmericanFreeEnterpriseSystem

23:06 The Grover Norquist Wednesday morning meetings

Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine in Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/grover-norquist-soul-new-machine/

Right Wing – Strength in numbers

24:30 The Daily Show – Health care

25:00 Think Tanks

26:00 Thomas Medvetz Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

26:42 The Reagan Revolution The Beginning of the ‘Smaller Government’ Mantra

27:00 Trickle down economics, “The only thing I have seen trickle down is meanness”

28:00 Rick Perlstein author of “The Invisible Bridge: The fall of Nixon and the rise of Reagan”

28:42 Claire Conner author of “Wrapped in the flag”

30:45 Supply-Side Economics

40:00 “Champion of the Overdog”

Top Ten Limbaugh Lies 10. There are more Native Americans alive today than when Columbus arrived. 9. The government is going to have the right to get into your bank account with the health care bill and make transfers without you knowing it. 8. Egyptian husbands will soon be able to have sex with their dead wives – for up to six hours after their death. 7. President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency “Into a Muslim outreach department.” 6. The U.S. has more forestland than it did in 1787. 5. President Obama wants to mandate circumcision. 4. There’s no conclusive proof that nicotine’s addictive… and the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer and heart disease. 3. If the ice caps melted, the oceans level wouldn’t rise 2. Styrofoam is biodegradable. 1. I’m not making this stuff up, folks!

45:00 Rush Limbaugh paid $35million per year, partly paid by the Heritage Foundation

The 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act

October 1996 Fox News Launched

49:30 Gabriel Sherman

50:40 Rick Perlstein

51:10 Edward S. Herman Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

51:55 David Brock author of “The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes turned a network into a propaganda machine”

53:48 Eric Boehlert Senior Fellow, Media Matters for America

54:07 Fox News median audience is 69 years old

55:19 Matthew Saccaro Freelance writer, “I was a teenage Fox News robot”

Brainwashing by Stealth

59:00 Dr Kathleen Taylor Neuroscientist, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford author of “Brainwashing”

59:54 George Lakoff author of “Don’t Think of and Elephant!: the essential guide for progressives”

1:00:28 “You can’t win because it does not make any difference how many facts you put out there. It is all about the emotion of anger and hate and fear”

1:00:45 Dr Kathleen Taylor: “Five important factors in the belief change:

Isolation

Control

Uncertainty

Repetition

Use of strong emotions

“It often seemed that my dad was addicted to these angry emotions. He couldn’t wait to shut himself off and listen to Rush Limbaugh for three hours and get all pissed off.”

Addicted to Anger?

1:01:12 John Montgomery, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department, SUNY, New Platz

1:02:00 TACTICS Tactic 1: Lie and Skew Tactic 2: Create Confusion and Doubt: The Noise Machine! Tactic 3: Blame and Divide Tactic 4: Brand and Label Tactic 5: Language and Framing Tactic 6: Fear Mongering and the Use of Emotion Tactic 7: Bullying and Shaming 1. shuts the guest up 2. fake outrage Tactic 8: In Your Face! It’s everywhere and it’s overkill Tactic 9: Non-verbal Manipulation Tactic 10:

1:16:21 What has this onslaught of right-wing media wrought?

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ACTIVITY CHECK - OCTOBER 7th, 2023

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