Wednesday, 3 PM June 5, 2013 SUBJECT: “THE DEMOCRATIC DISCONNECT REPORT: Citizenship and Accountability in the Transatlantic Community" Submitted by the European-based TRANSATLANTIC ACADEMY, 2013. What will follow here on my FACEBOOK site after this posting are NOTES the undersigned took RE “The Democratic Disconnect Report: Citizenship and Accountability in the Transatlantic Community,” which was discussed by Diane Rehm and guests on The Diane Rehm Show, Jefferson Public Radio (JPR, 91.5 FM), on May 28th, 7 – 8 AM. Diane Rehm, an A++ Washington, D.C. political talk-show host, is respected by guests and callers alike, and therefore has the crème de la crème on her show. Her guests include the wisest analysts, most pragmatic Beltway journalists, distinguished professors, and scholars from Progressive and “obstructionist Conservative Republican” think tanks. [FOOTNOTE 1] Ms. Diane Rehm, on the other hand, is universally characterized as an intelligent humanist, with patrician civility and decency. Her cordial “Good Mornings” and responses to callers, which she conveys with impressive alacrity, are renowned and instructive if not iconic. The reason she may not be generally known is that the prevailing USA misogynist religious Cultural Psychology (or USA Sociology) denigrates and depreciates the female women gender --- by hiding her in order to effect marginalization. On May 28th, Diane Rehm presided over a discussion of the transatlantic “The Democratic Disconnect Report.” You can glean the essence of the Report from the attached notes. The Report spans the Big Pond, and purports to offer an avant-garde analysis about the state of Democracy (ies) in the world, American and European. Her guests included at least one of the Report’s European authors. FOOTNOTE 1 “…obstructionist Conservative Republican” think tanks,” to whom and about the Russkies George Or-well obviously referred as sociopathic or felonious “pigs” in his backward-looking and yet prescient classic "Animal Farm" (1945). Or-well said, on animal farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others," those are "the pigs on he farm." “In the preface, Orwell also described the source of the idea of setting the book on a farm:[22] ‘...I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich[the 1% bankers and financiers] exploit the proletariat [the 99% Middle and working poor classes].’” WIKIPEDIA, “Animal Farm.” In "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Or-well proclaimed: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength,” a part of which might be translated as follows: A financed college education constitutes "Indentured Servitude Slavery," and obviates the opportunity of professionals to buy GNP-growing homes or start new businesses.
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