The Robber Barons’ Party

The Robber Barons are back. They’re staging a celebration of their power in Washington, DC, where they help write the majority of legislation and hold captive all but a very few of our nation’s legislators.

Written on January 20, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Transcript: NLP 9. Jan 18 2005

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).
Week 9: We are all made up of multiple persons. Each part of us brings the resources along with it that it has the best access to. There are many parts that we all have in common. If you identify the part that you are speaking to and [...]

Written on January 18, 2005 | Posted in Radio Show, Transcripts | Comments Off| Read More »

Transcript: NLP 8. Jan 11 2005

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).
Week 8: Embedding ideas or information into people's unconscious. Conscious mind has filter, knows context – unconscious doesn't (e.g. "I, like you…"). Arc of competence (conscious & unconscious). Stories framed in second person ("I told him, 'you…'"). Embedding pictures. Future and the previous pacing (e.g. people wondering about [...]

Written on January 11, 2005 | Posted in Radio Show, Transcripts | Comments Off| Read More »

First They Came For The Terrorists…

The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It’s much bigger than that. If Bush continues to roll back human and civil rights – and the installation of Alberto Gonzalez as America’s chief law enforcement officer is very much a part of his campaign to do so – we may be facing a [...]

Written on January 10, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »

Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing

Book by robert wolff
Review by Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on January 6, 2005.

Written on January 5, 2005 | Posted in Books | Comments Off| Read More »

Transcript: NLP 7. Jan 05 2005

Thom's online class in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming).
Week 7: Framing. Anchoring. How we store information in the brain. Submodalities. Changing the meaning of events in the mind.
 

Written on January 5, 2005 | Posted in Radio Show, Transcripts | Comments Off| Read More »

Dialing In For Democracy – Now Is Critical

Jeff Taylor is one of Vermont’s three electors – representatives elected by the citizens of Vermont to vote for President of the United States. He and his two peers have joined the electors of several other states in signing resolutions asking their state’s congressional delegation to protest the Ohio slate of electors. “If they can [...]

Written on January 3, 2005 | Posted in Democracy/Politics | Comments Off| Read More »