Daily Topics - Thursday September 23rd, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. -- George Eliot
Hour One: Does capitalism kill competition and can the Fed save America? Plus, is there a movement in America to resegregate our schools? Reverend William Barber, President of the NAACP's North Carolina State Conference, will be here www.onenationworkingtogether.org
Hour Two: What kills more children than AIDS, Malaria and TB combined? - Thom talks with Swedish Ambassador Jan Eliasson, Chair of WaterAid-Sweden www.wateraid.org; Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - What ancient herbal remedy may help fight cancer?
Hour Three: Why should we listen to conservatives when their past decisions have always destroyed economies? Thom has a rumble with Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA, 21st District)
Comments
#2
Congratulations! Thom and Louise and the Thom Hartmann Show!
On your move to get us the best news from das Headquarters itself! Now we can really work on getting that interview with the President.
BTW- want a beautiful sustainable city? check out what liberal Cradle to Cradle consultants are building for 12 sustainable Chinese cities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-oO7uULcc
Liberals make the world a wonderful place! :)
#3
Leaving Portland, Oregon is not an easy move because it seems to me that this area has much to offer families. With that said a move to D.C. makes sense. Thom, please guard against becoming one of the lunatics running our asylums in Washington, D.C.
#4
Congratulations on the DC move. Hope your voice reaches more people as a result. Did you run this big decision by Higgins? What did he say?
#5
Your going to have to 3 extra hours before you show starts. You have a chance to write books in the morning.
N
#6
Well Mr Huckleberry... uh Hucklebee, you have a great point, Health Care really shouldn't be administered by Insurance Companies. I'm with you sir, universal coverage. If you're a citizen, you have coverage. Just like you don't need Fire and Police department insurance.
N
#7
When you are facing in the right direction, keep walking..........
Chinese Proverb
#8
What about HIGGENS!
#9
Huckleberry is a pharisee. Aint it something, a man of the cloth more concerned with profits than with a child's health.
#10
Thom has to bring Higgins with him of course. He can threaten to release him in congress, if they don't get their act together (but that's only in very severe cases).
N
#11
Resisting protectionism... what a croc, what the hell is wrong with protecting our commerce?
Can't stand these BS trade policies.
N
#12
Thom, check with Stephanie Miller, she uses Pet Airways to transport her animals. They specialize in transporting animals, so you may want to consider using that service to safey transport Higgins.
N
#13
I need help and I have a suggestion.
Once again I need help for the water cooler wars. I believe Thom has explained this, but I keep missing it. How do I say that Walmart is a monopoly when there is a K-Mart (etc.)?
Next I have a suggestion for a bunch of liberal talk show economists. The right wingers keep saying businesses are the provider of jobs, which is true. However, it is also true that the key way business improve profit margin is by eliminating jobs. This is done via mergers and acquisitions and by outsourcing. Why does not anyone bring up this paradox?
#14
@Chuckles, I bring up the Gandhi story that Thom tells. Watch the Gandhi movie. When there is a concentration of power, the citizens can no longer be self sufficient because all the natural resources are owned by the top 2 percent. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/
Then show them this, http://lcurve.org/
And have them read Unequal Protection http://www.suite101.com/content/thom-hartmann-unequal-protection-2010---predator-corporations-a235070
Give a man a fish and he eats for the day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime, but what happens when there are no more fish?
I also like to have them watch this: http://www.walmartmovie.com/
Give us more information about where the problems come up. The Republicans have no right cloaking themselves as the fiscally responsible party after causing a world wide economic meltdown and a massive trade imbalance. They are but puppets of the puppet masters who purchase politicians that do their bidding for them by creating laws that throw off the competiton, like how the Romans used to put knives in their chariot wheels, to cut those of their competitors, as seen in Sparticus.
#15
Quantatative Easing sounds like a path to 3rd world for us. I am telling you people, join the Transition Movement.
#16
Resistance to protectionism is why I question the ivy league institutions, they all teach free trade. They all produce the same zombies; just like those elite who took over our agriculture.
#17
Tranquilize Higgens- a fine brandy will do! But I would not trust checking the other cats. I would work out a discount with Stephanie Miller on Pet Airways.
#18
Thom,
Pet Airways will get all your kitties to DC in style and comfort. I haven't used them. But, Stephanie Miller has used them for her giant dogs and raves about them. Check it out petairways.com
Best of luck.
Dianne
Kirkland, WA
#19
http://green-democrats.org/ the solution to the 3rd party problem within the Democratic Party.
Y'all- our Sacramento Green Democrats is shaping up and becoming a force for the progressive movement within the Democratic party without, acting as an entity to tally up votes for the Republicans!
After many years of head banging in a bad way, I must here give kudos to the founders and shapers of Sacramento's new Green Democratic Party- endorsing Prop 19 Marijuana by the way, and but of course, Jerry Brown. Talk about a reason to get the voters out! Well, we've got a few of our own tricks out here on the West coast. :) Last time, it was prop hate 8, but now it is going to be love, natural medicine, and Jerry Brown. [Brown was just reported ahead - however, we are taking no chances are are mobilizing, and the unions are a big help- cheers to SEIU who has also endorsed prop 19. ]
#20
Now that you'll be in DC is there a chance you will pop up on MSNBC? It would be nice to see you and Eugene Robinson on Rachel's show together some night.
#21
Debin is a dog chasing his tail.
#22
Watched The Fountainhead on a classic movie channel recently. A movie based on one of Ann Rands books. The protaganist of the story is an Architect the refuses to have buildings built anyway but his way. The movie was littered with anti-communism propaganda, of course. However the thing that struck me was this Architect, which I had a feeling she based on her fantasy of Frank Lloyd Wright. However her understanding of how an Architect needs to work with a client to produce a structure the client wants, was sorely lacking. It was a poor metaphor, and even though the protaganist was supposed to be a common man the audience could identify with, I couldn't help but be repulsed by the character. A supposed self made man who will only do it his way, and he succeeds in spite of the liberal elite trying to hold him down.
Left me with only one word to describe it... POPPYCOCK.
If anyone wants to understand a neo-con's persepective, watch that movie, it lays it out perfectly. Made in 1949, Starring Gary Cooper.
N
#23
FoodFacist -- Thanks for the comments. Your suggestions demonstrate how bad a plutocracy or an oligarchy is. However, they do not allow me to use the word monopoly.
#24
Yah just love the part where Roarke goes blue collar
#25
@checkle 8 Monopoly = Unequal Society, there are many forms of this and monopoly is the beginning phase, read Unequal Protection to understand this.
#26
Foodfacist. I plan to do that (i.e. read unequal protection), but that equality takes some explanation, and in water cooler wars I don't always have that much time.
#27
The corporate state pays thousands of people big bucks to scheme ways to cheat and steal money and power. How many us would manage to hold to our principles if we were offered millions of dollars to be their mouth piece? We only have a few people like Thom to counter their machinations and they deserve as much support as we can give. Don't let ignorance and mediocrity triumph again.
#28
Hey Huckkkabee.
What about Jerry's kids? Are you suggesting that every Labor day instead of trying to help these kids you should drag them before a pre-existing condition death panel - and - y'know - get rid of them???
Unbelievable that a so-called religious man thinks sick children should be treated the same as furniture and other household possessions. he is a sick, sick man.
#29
Where is that "Increase in Defense Spending" that Republicans promise in their pledge going?
Unfortunately, I KNOW, where at LEAST hundreds of billions of dollars in "increased defense budget spending", (Pledge to America), is going. Myself & thousands of Chamorru also found out, on Wednesday, in fact.
Early yesterday morning, about 2AM, my phone rang. It was just 4PM on the beautiful Island of Guam. You may remember that my Son has been an activist for the past 3 years, helping the Chamorru people, (who had "adopted" him into their "tribe"), the indigenous people of the Marianna Islands, to fight the US Govt who had proposed a massive US Military buildup.
5 months ago, the Chamorru were told that the entire matter had been shelved indefinitely, possibly permanently. They celebrated with Island-wide Bar-B-Q's, party's, dancing.
Perhaps they should have expected something when the military decided to move ahead with plans for a giant firing & small missile range--directly over the site of an ancient village and burial ground. Maybe the building tension between China and Japan should have alerted them that something *could* happen.
BUT,Island life is slow, easy, and word travels slowly. And of course their "non-voting" Senator & Representatives hadn't said anything. It had never even come to a final vote in Committees,...as far as they knew. (by the way-they DO pay taxes, fairly high ones, but they don't have a single VOTING representative in our Congress or Senate.)
At about 3PM Guam time, my son saw a line of black SUV's traveling past his small, 98% Asian Islander, University. (UOG) The last time he saw this was about 7 months ago. When "Sensitive" KBR employees, AKA "Support personnel", were serving Chamorru families and businesses "imminent domain" papers. He called his long-time fiancé, a Chamorru. He hadn't been that active in the organization lately, except for a few events, because of school & two jobs. Angela was crying when she answered the phone, they had just been served.
The Activists & most residents didn't even KNOW that everything had changed until late yesterday.
They didn't see this coming. THOUSANDS of Chamorru will be displaced, more homes & land STOLEN by "imminent domain", businesses & land closed. They estimate approximately 79,000 troops and their families, 40,000 "support personnel", (those wonderful companies called Halliburton & KBR are being used INSTEAD of the local population which has over 30% UNEMPLOYMENT!!!). While they ARE planning more protests, these poor indigenous island people, know all to well that when the US Military wants your land-THEY TAKE IT!!!I would HOPE that most Truthseekers would be sensitive to this ABSOLUTE violation of Human & Civil Rights by the US Military!! We need AS MANY people as we can to help get the word out!! I can guarantee you 98% of the US won't even KNOW what this Country is about to do to these poor people!!!! As if our Military hasn't done enough to these poor people. (they are STILL fighting for the promised reparations for their land, businesses & radiation sickness/death from *60 YEARS AGO!!!The Conservative news site, Guam PDN, Pacific Daily News, has VERY little on the theft of the Chamorru's hard earned businesses and land-instead, their headlines were about Guam having a high number of mistakes made in issuing FOOD STAMPS to the MANY unemployed.KUAM.com, a local TV &Radio station has a bit more-but understand that since the Environmental Impact Study came back last year that this build-up could mean destroying this Island permanently, (the Coral Reef that protects the island from tidal waves, tames the typhoons, and geologically stabilizes the island is set to be dredged out for "Naval Aircraft Carrier Access"".)But THAT'S OK, they promise to be "sensitive". Here's links for the facebook page and the ROD (DOD's record of decision-actually was released on Tues, sorry-it takes awhile for news to travel), that announced this.
We Are Guahan Forum-MUCH info, up to date, unlike the website, we're going to try & fix the site tonight weareguahan.com (Guahan is the REAL, Chamorru name for Guam)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=201035718843&ref=Many of the photos in this group are of the breath-taking area they want to demolish fir their "missile range"
CommonDreams article on it:http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/22-2The record of decision from the DOD:
http://www.guambuildupeis.us/documents/record_of_decision/Guam_Record_Of_Decision_FINAL.pdf Elaine Who is also in tears
#30
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
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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From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"With the ever-growing influence of corporate CEOs and their right-wing allies in all aspects of American life, Hartmann’s work is more relevant than ever. Throughout his career, Hartmann has spoken compellingly about the value of people-centered democracy and the challenges that millions of ordinary Americans face today as a result of a dogma dedicated to putting profit above all else. This collection is a rousing call for Americans to work together and put people first again."
From Screwed:
"Once again, Thom Hartmann hits the bull’s eye with a much needed exposé of the so-called ‘free market.’ Anyone concerned about the future of our nation needs to read Screwed now."
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."
Thom by the sounds of it, it is your nature to move around like a tumbleweed. Hope it all goes well for you.
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