Daily Topics - Tuesday February 28th, 2012
By shawnt56
EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT..."Heist-The Movie"...MARCH 2 - 8, 2012 | ONE WEEK ONLY! at NY’s Quad Cinema 34 West 13th Street, NYC, Featuring Bernie Sanders, Robert Kuttner, David Cay Johnston, Nomi Prins, Van Jones & more! See here for longer list
Hour One: Detroit's children...who eats, who doesn't - Russ Russell, Forgotten Harvest
Hour Two: Tolls not taxes? Adrian Moore, Reason Foundation
Hour Three: Nuclear power...scientists say we're living on borrowed time - David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists
Comments
#2
On the efficiency of RRs. Great for frieght but they lose that with passengers. They lack the desired density. If passengers could be stacked like chord wood...
#3
In 2007 I traveled in France and the Netherlands in both train and car.
The trains are amazing and the toll roads in France are impeccable. The tolls are outrageously expensive and frequent, but they are the smoothest and most well maintained roads I've ever driven.
#4
There is a safe form of nuclear energy. One of the callers mentioned it briefly. It's thorium, which is an element close to uranium. There's so little waste, whats left can be used for medical technology research and theraphy. It doesn't explode or melt down. We had a thorium plant in the 60's but it wasn't a source of weapons grade nuclear material.
It's abundant; enough currently available to power the earth for 1,000 years.
It can be used to eliminate current waste from uranium plants.
Research it and try and find a downside.
#5
When is the show moving to the 3PM-6PM (ET) time slot again? I heard a date around the week of March 12. So now it seems that some stations that have been playing Thom on tape delay right after Ed Schultz (WCPT Chicago, WWRL New York, etc.) will now get to play both shows live. And I wonder what KPTK Seattle and KPOJ Portland will do since they currently play Ed Schultz on delay after Thom live. Also, is Randi Rhodes going to change time slots, or is she Thom's new competitor?
The Secret On TrumpCare Is Now Out
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Senate Republican healthcare bill is secret no more.
There's just one problem - it's not really a healthcare bill.
Don't let Mitch McConnell fool you.
Contrary to what you might have heard - Senate Republicans DID NOT unveil a healthcare bill yesterday.
They unveiled a tax cut for the rich DISGUISED as a healthcare bill.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
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"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."
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