Daily Topics - Thursday November 10th, 2011

Thom Hartmann: As World Population Reaches 7 Billion, What Will Save Us From Ourselves?

Free Speech TV invites citizen journalists from around the world to send us videos of actions in your community that support the 99% Movement. They'll be posted @ www.freespeech.org and some will air on DirecTV-348 & DishTV-9415 which reach into 35 million households across the USA. Check www.freespeech.org for more details on how to submit.

Hour One: Berlusconi's Italy and Europe's downhill economic roll - Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic Policy Research

Hour Two: Consider...Democratic Socialism - Maria Svart, Democratic Socialists of America / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Scientists cast doubts on TSA tests of full body scanners

Hour Three: The new children in need - Laurie Ferris & Michael Simonson, The Hunter School

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Skydude's picture
Skydude 14 years 41 weeks ago
#1

Where can I find a link to the officer who talks about his expierences with Occupy on youtube?

BruceKahn's picture
BruceKahn 14 years 41 weeks ago
#2

Re: Community policing and undercover police
Story- when I was in college a hundred years ago, there were student members of the campus police. A small group of us were, shall we say, being rowdy, and the campus police showed up. One of them was a student I knew. I looked at her, she looked at me, and I said, "OK, we'll be quiet now." The "real" officer looked at her in awe.
It didn't hurt that I was madly in love with her....
Undercover cops- I think it's a lot like journalists. If a journalist is there to observe and report on a story, that's fine. If they participate, become part of the story, not so fine. If there is a large public gathering and a plainclothes cop is there in the crowd, I don't see that as an issue. If he is holding a sign, pretending to be for or against what's going on, or incites any action, that is way over the line.

mathboy's picture
mathboy 14 years 41 weeks ago
#3

OMG. Thoughts are not energy, they are a biochemical process. Autistic people are not telepathic; no one is. This sounds like a reformulation of "indigo children". The kid's mantra use sounds like a decent technique obviously, though a bit Bokononist.

mathboy's picture
mathboy 14 years 41 weeks ago
#4

"Erythrophobically ugly"? With fear of the color red?

BruceKahn's picture
BruceKahn 14 years 41 weeks ago
#5

Mathboy..... if thoughts are not (electrical) energy, how exactly does an EEG work?
Must be magic.....

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