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May 2010
Tea Party Protesters Give a Big Wet Kiss to Hedge Fund Managers
Even though there are Tea Party protests about high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data shows that Americans paid the lowest level of taxes last year since the Harry Truman’s presidency.
Daily Topics - Tuesday - May 11th 2010 - Mercury goes Direct!!
Welcome to our newest affilate TV stations: Baltimore Grassroots Media in Baltimore, MD and also Fort Collins Public Access Media in Fort Collins, CO
Hour One: Is America facing "My Big Fat Greek Bankruptcy?!" Thom mixes it up with Libertarian Wayne Root www.rootforamerica.com
Monday 10 May '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Webster Tarpley, PhD, Author, historian, journalist, lecturer, and critic of Anglo-American hegemony.
- Matt Welch of the Reason Foundation.
- Topics:
- Who is Elena Kagan?
- How do we stop the hedge fund wolfpacks from destroying the European economy?
- How About Hate Crimes for Homeless?
- Guests:
Kagan: A Sleeper Socialist or Right Winger?
Today President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, positioning the court to have three female justices for the first time.Daily Topics - Monday - May 10th 2010
Hour One - Who is Elena Kagan?
Hour Two - How do we stop the hedge fund wolfpacks from destroying the European economy?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Greg Palast, is the Immigration issue in Arizona a smoke screen for Republican suppression tactics? 26 Apr '10.
Thom Hartmann: I want to start out, though, with Greg Palast. Old friend of the show, GregPalast.com, one of America’s best investigative journalists, and actually one of Britain’s best investigative journalists as most of his work that makes its way to television is published by the BBC. He also writes for the Observer, the British newspaper. GregPalast.com his website. Greg welcome to the show.
Greg Palast: Hey glad to be with you, Thom.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann defends Obama Zombies against Jason Mattera, 29 Mar '10.
Thom Hartmann: Jason Mattera was seven minutes into his speech yesterday to the 2010 CPAC conference when he raised his rallying cry: "we must be that generation that stands athwart history" - as I recall he was paraphrasing William F. Buckley- 'yelling, “Hey jackass get your government off my freedom!' ” Right.
Jason Mattera, JasonMattera.com. Am I pronouncing that right, Jason?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Dr. James Hansen about his book "Storms of My Grandchildren", 05 Jan '10.
Thom Hartmann: So the state of the economy is perilous, the state of the environment is far more so. Dr. James Hansen is here with us, member of the National Academy of Sciences, adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and Columbia’s Earth Institute, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, he’s frequently called to testify before Congress on climate issues. His background in space and earth sciences is extraordinary.
Friday 7 May '10 show notes
- 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.
- Guests:
Thursday 6 May '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Dan Gainor, of the Business and Media Institute.
- David Niose, President, American Humanist Association.
- Topics:
- The chemical dispersants being used against the oil spill in the Gulf.
- Why do conservatives want to turn America into Pakistan?
- Should all terrorists on the "terrorist watch list" be able to buy a gun?
- Geeky Science Rocks!
- Guests:
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