YES! It’s a perfect example of the dangers of tar sands drilling.
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NO! There's not enough media attention to pressure him.
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
From Screwed:
"Thom Hartmann’s book explains in simple language and with concrete research the details of the Neo-con’s war against the American middle class. It proves what many have intuited and serves to remind us that without a healthy, employed, and vital middle class, America is no more than the richest Third World country on the planet."
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"In an age rife with media-inspired confusion and political cowardice, we yearn for a decent, caring, deeply human soul whose grasp of the problems confronting us provides a light by which we can make our way through the quagmire of lies, distortions, pandering, and hollow self-puffery that strips the American Dream of its promise. How lucky we are, then, to have access to the wit, wisdom, and willingness of Thom Hartmann, who shares with us here that very light, grown out of his own life experience."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Beneath the success and rise of American enterprise is an untold history that is antithetical to every value Americans hold dear. This is a seminal work, a godsend really, a clear message to every citizen about the need to reform our country, laws, and companies."
The poor planet is dying already...this just makes it worst.
Too much money....I would prefer to say, "There's too much money backing TransCanada's XL Pipeline." There's Big Oil who are busy tearing up the Canadian boreal forest to get at the sticky, gooey tarsand. There's the Canadian government who is looking for a deep port where the tarsand oil can be exported. There is the Pipefitters Union who is looking for jobs. There are the former State Department and congressional employees who are now employed by TransCanada, including Hilary Clinton's former manager who is now lead attorney on the pipeline. Then there is the GOP who is clamoring for the pipeline because of its job potential never mind that the pipeline will only employ 200 people once it is operating and those will probably be Canadians -- at least, upper management will be Canadian. Then there are the bankers who are payrolling the pipeline. Money money everywhere. President Obama in the past has said that his first priority is jobs and the economy which, I think, he would approve the pipeline on these grounds. Besides, the State Department has said they had no objections to the Pipeline.