"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
June 2010
The Only American Part of BP was the BP Oil Disaster
The LA Times is reporting that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf "was built in South Korea. It was operated by a Swiss company under contract to a British oil firm. Primary responsibility for safety and other inspections rested not with the U.S. government but with the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a tiny, impoverished nation in the Pacific Ocean.Daily Topics - Tuesday, June 15th 2010
Hour One: Why do conservatives so hate America that they want to force us to keep sending money to the King of Saudi Arabia? Thom confronts Dr. David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org; Plus, Is Halliburton still a rogue corporation or was it all BP's fault? Rob Kall of OpEd News will be here www.opednews.com
Is the BP Boycott Working?
A new report by an environmental group claims that BP may not be able to pay all of the damages from the BP oil spill without the giant oil company being dissolved and all its assets sold off. It found that BP could potentially owe between $330 billion and $1.3 trillion if the BP oil spill completely decimates the area, an amount that could equal or even exceed the entire value of the company.Daily Topics - Monday, June 14, 2010
Hour One: Have B.P, Halliburton and Transocean have unleashed Armageddon? And, is there no stopping it? Thom talks to geologist Chris Landau www.opednews.com
Hour Two: Why we're really in Afghanistan
The Thom Hartmann Program is looking for message board and liveblog moderators
The Thom Hartmann Program is looking for message board moderators
Here are some things to consider if you'd like to apply:Friday 11 June '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT).
- Peter Bergman & Phil Ossman of the Firesign Theatre
- Topics:
- "Brunch With Bernie"
- 'Anything Goes' Friday!
- Fun & appearances
- Bumper Music:
- Upside Down, Jack Johnson.
- Guests:
Thursday 10 June '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Congressman Brian Baird (D-WA).
- Eddie Vale, AFL-CIO spokesman.
- Climate scientist Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
- Curtis Sliwa, host of The Curtis Sliwa Show; founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels.
- Guests:
Wednesday 9 June '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Stephanie Miller, host of the Stephanie Miller Show.
- Brit Mark Boyle, "The Moneyless Man".
- Guests:
Tuesday 8 June '10 show notes
- Guests:
- Ron Pollock, Executive Director, Families USA.
- Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley.
- Cenk Uygar of The Young Turks Radio Program.
- Guests:
Tea Party or Trash Party?
The tea party and their corporate-funded backers FreedomWorks complained that the individual mandate in the new health care law was an unlawful. Now, local chapters of the tea party and FreedomWorks are collaborating to plan a protest in Gwinnet County, Georgia, to voice their latest grievance against a serious, excessive, and oppressive exercise of massive governmental power — mandatory home trash collection. Yes, seriously.
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