Daily Topics - Tuesday - March 9th 2010
By Louise
Quote: “Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.” -- Ambrose Bierce
Hour One - When will the United States stop our insane trade policies and bring our jobs home? Katherine Mangu-Ward www.reason.org
Hour Two - Does freedom of religion mean freedom to smoke pot? Rev. Roger Christie ‘Cannabis Sacrament‘ minister www.thc-ministry.org
Hour Three - How the vulture corporations are destroying third world countries as they have already destroyed American jobs? Greg Palast Progressive investigative journalist www.gregpalast.com
Friday, March 19th, 6-8pm - Demos and the New York Law School Chapter of the American Constitution Society present an evening with Thom Hartmann - "When Corporations Became People." Thom will also talk about his updated book "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights"...event is at New York Law School Auditorium, 185 W Broadway, New York, NY...free tickets at www.demos.org (and click on events)
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More on the cannabis as sacrament case in Colorado:
According to an article in the Denver Post today, the judge in the trial, in Georgetown, Colorado, rejected the defendant's religious defense, saying that the issue was whether or not his personal beliefs amounted to a religion, as defined in case law.
"It does not appear to this court that the defendant is practicing a religion so much as his own beliefs," she said.
For more on the case, see the following web page: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14643 ... z0hnRufTqR
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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."
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Through compelling personal stories, Hartmann presents a dramatic and deeply disturbing picture of humans as a profoundly troubled species. Hope lies in his inspiring vision of our enormous unrealized potential and his description of the path to its realization."
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"Hartmann combines a remarkable piece of historical research with a brilliant literary style to tell the grand story of corporate corruption and its consequences for society with the force and readability of a great novel."
@Brachland - HEY!!! ... watch it, buddy - I'M an Engineer! Engineering is universally recognized as the most difficult 4-year college program one can take. Way harder for undergrads than Medicine or Law.
Engineers, regardless of their specific discipline, are trained in the following -
1) identification and analysis of problems
2) identification of available resources that may be applicable to said problem
3) reaching a solution to the problem using the available resources.
These skills, of course, are relatively useless to the world of politics, where the paradigm seems to be as follows:
1) identify and analyze the problem
2) obfuscate all aspects of the problem so as to divide and exploit the voting public and remain in office for as long as possible without actually doing ANYTHING.