By SueN
- Guests:
- Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT).
- Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate; Lawyer; Author of numerous books including his latest "Only The Super Rich Can Save Us". Center for Study of Responsive Law.
- Topics:
- "Brunch With Bernie"
- "Wealth for Justice", battle against corporate personhood, campaign finance reform, etc.
- 'Anything Goes' Friday.
- Bumper Music:
- There Is the Sun, Derek James.
- Fireflies, Owl City.
- Ain't No Thing is Perfect, Derek James.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Wish You were Here, Incubus.
- New World Man, Rush.
- Birthday, Beatles.
- You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism". -- Thomas Jefferson.
- Article: Oil Regulator Ceded Oversight to Drillers by Russell Gold And Stephen Power.
The small U.S. agency that oversees offshore drilling doesn't write or implement most safety regulations, having gradually shifted such responsibilities to the oil industry itself for more than a decade.
Instead, the Minerals Management Service—now caught up in the crisis of the Deepwater Horizon rig that for weeks has sent crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico—sets broad performance goals for the industry. Oil producers and drilling companies are then free to decide for themselves how to meet those goals, industry executives and former regulators say.
