Daily Topics - Tuesday September 21st, 2010
By shawnt56
Quote of the Day: One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. -- Pete Seeger
Hour One: As the American economy and the Gulf of Mexico die, how is China becoming the next world superpower? - Thom talks to Peter Lehner, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, about his new book "In Deep Water: The Anatomy of a Disaster, The Fate of the Gulf and How to End Our Oil Addiction" www.nrdc.org; Plus, Why would tea party followers embrace a criminal? Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), will be here www.citizensforethics.org
Hour Two: Wasn't the real death panel the 40 year Republican Strategy for the Middle Class? Thom talks to Robert Reich, former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary and author of the new book "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future" http://robertreich.org
Hour Three: The New McCarthyism...are we in the midst of a national psychosis? - Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast, will be here www.dailybeast.com; Plus, "Taking Our Country Back" - Matt Campbell talks to Thom about running for Congress from Iowa's 5th District against Rep. Steve King www.mattcampbellforcongress.com
Comments
#2
If the Dept of Justice won't look into the felony accusations against the last administration, why would they bother to look at ongoing criminal accusations against a candidate for office?
#3
I have shared with you Stephen Lendman’s great article, “A Culture of Violence.” I am beginning to believe that Americans are INHUMAN BEINGS ant not human beings.
#4
Here is an example of Americans and their inhuman being status.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Growing-Poverty-in-America-by-Stephen-Lendman-100921-818.html
#5
ROF You should have played your cricket sound when you said you agree with Theodore!! =)
Poor Theo didn't have anything to say after that!
#6
I don't want to get what YOU deserve. We are not separate players with isolated connections.
#7
Re: That's the way it's supposed to be
Taking the Bible literally...
#8
As Joseph Campbell said (paraphrased) We have taken a religion from another culture, another place and another time and tried to make it our own.
#9
When will the United States of Mortal Sin end her lust in the killing of God's children???
#10
One triad of evil nation refuses to sign nucleat treaty. How can any other nation on this planet trust such an evil nation?
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/21/israel-rules-out-signing-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/
#11
My wife and her sisters went out to eat in Old Town Port Huron for the twins' birthday. One of my wife's conservative crazy sisters said that she could not judge Israel because Israel is a Jewish state and Jesus was Jewish. She makes no sense. It is the same as for me to say that I cannot offer my perceptual opinion that Bush II and Obama are mass muderers because they are human beings and Jesus was a human being.
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.
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Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
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here is a nice picture of the Shanghai skyline from 1990 and from 2010
http://gizmodo.com/5558350/shanghai-skyline-before-and-after