Daily Topics - Friday January 21st, 2011

Jan. 21, 2011 9:26 am

By shawnt56

Alternet: Progressive Profiles: With New TV Show, Radio Talker Thom Hartmann Brings Substance to Style

Truthout is proud to bring you an exclusive series from America's No. 1 progressive radio host, Thom Hartmann. We'll be publishing weekly installments, "Rebooting the American Dream."

"Anything Goes on Townhall Fridays!"

Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders takes your calls - www.sanders.senate.gov

Hour Three: Citizen's United anniversary...was the Supreme Court out of order? Bob Edgar, President/CEO-Common Cause - www.commoncause.org - Plus, Fighting Citizen's United decision...what you can do - Robert Weissman, President-Public Citizen - www.citizen.org

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Comments

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

January 21, 2011

Why do most politicians say that they are going to make our government more transparent? When it comes to WikiLeaks, Julian Assange may be targeted for assassination.

http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew01182011.html

Pentagon loves threats!

http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/20/gops-2-5-trillion-cut-would-end-usaid-but-still-doesnt-touch-military/

GOP loves wars!

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/19/wikileaks/index.html

Deceived!

Maxrot 15 years 28 weeks ago

With outsourcing and national debt increasing with no end in sight, why is there no talk of enforcing and increasing tariffs?

Rhetorical question, I know its because Wall Street isn't concerned about American economic health, no Wall Street is only concerned about the bottom line, and Wall Street is pulling enough strings to lead the majority of our Government and therefore our country over the cliff edge.

So where is the grass roots movement demanding the return of manufacturing? Why is the progressive movement seemingly ignoring this? Or have I been missing the underground current building up?

making progress 15 years 28 weeks ago

Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Tariff_Act

The Act was a response to the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill.

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

Inflexibility!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Inflexibility-as-a-Poor-Na-by-Bud-Goodall-110120-539.html

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

Children and war!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Shock-And-Awe-Of-Child-by-Allen-L-Roland-110120-67.html

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

This article is similar to my #5 comment and article.

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/shock-and-awe-of-children-and-war.html

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

Here is an article by Rabbi Michael Lerner.

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/when-generosity-love-and-kindness-are-public-policy-the-violence-we-saw-in-arizona-will-dramatically-diminish/

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

Adolph Hitler's influence upon conservatives and Republicans in the United States of Mortal Sin is very powerful.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

~Adolph Hitler

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

The GOP hates the elderly!!!

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/01/20/the_gop_war_against_poor_sick_americans&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%252

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#10

The United States of Mortal Sin is a spiritually dead nation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/spiritual-death_b_811568.html

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#11

The United States of Mortal Sin is the conservatives, the corporations, the government, and the rich"s heavenly kingdom.

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-01-18.asp

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#12

We are the pot calling the kettle black!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18tue1.html?_r=1

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#13

Here is a great website for information.

http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#14

Thom, if you are at your computer, you may enjoy reading this information.

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-37522775

DRUMMER 15 years 28 weeks ago

#15

A Thursday night few weeks ago, The Colbert Report had David Stockman as a guest. You may recall that Stockman was Pres. Ronald Reagan's Budget Director. He was one of the architects of Reaganomics, along with the Trickle-Down Theory and other nonsensical notions such as the idea that lowering taxes on the rich creates jobs.

What was particularly interesting about this appearance was that he openly admitted that those theories were mistaken and bogus, and that they screwed up...it doesn't work.

Why haven't we seen anyone with a large voice on our side, howling this admission from the rooftops? The designer of the program himself apologizes for just how bad his program is.

It's about time we tax the rich their fair share. All the BS reasons why we shouldn't have been proven wrong over the last 30 years; Can't we learn from that history? Equality means a better world for everyone, and the rich finally contributing what they should would bring us closer to that equality. .

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#16

Oh my!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110120/wl_nm/us_italy_berlusconi_vatican_1

gerald 15 years 28 weeks ago

#17

Now, if only the pope would call for American politicians to be moral, then we would have a pope who is willing to take on the totally immoral U.S. Congress and the totally immoral U.S. Supreme Court.

Thom's Blog Is On the Move

Mar. 13, 2021 11:25 am

By webmaster

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.

At Nordeck

At Nordeck, a castle built around 900AD, near Salem in Stadtsteinach, Germany

Thom at 17

Thom speaking in Minneapolis in 2011

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Thom and Louise Meet Pope John Paul II

Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy

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."

—Paul Hawken, coauthor of Natural Capitalism and author of The Ecology of Commerce

From Cracking the Code:

"Thom Hartmann ought to be bronzed. His new book sets off from the same high plane as the last and offers explicit tools and how-to advice that will allow you to see, hear, and feel propaganda when it's directed at you and use the same techniques to refute it. His book would make a deaf-mute a better communicator. I want him on my reading table every day, and if you try one of his books, so will you."

—Peter Coyote, actor and author of Sleeping Where I Fall

From The Thom Hartmann Reader:

"Thom Hartmann is a literary descendent of Ben Franklin and Tom Paine. His unflinching observations and deep passion inspire us to explore contemporary culture, politics, and economics; challenge us to face the facts of the societies we are creating; and empower us to demand a better world for our children and grandchildren."

—John Perkins, author of the New York Times bestselling book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man