Daily Topics - Wednesday Feburary 8th, 2012
By shawnt56
Please welcome progressive strategist & syndicated columnist Karl Frisch in for Thom today
Hour One: What's next for the GOP hopefuls? John Nichols, The Nation Magazine / Plus, another video fraud from James O'Keefe? Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog
Hour Two: "How the GOP is Resegregating the South" - Ari Berman, The Nation Magazine
Hour Three: "The making of gay marriage’s top foe" - Mark Oppenheimer, Salon & The New York Times
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"The Saddest Thing Is This Won't Be Breaking News"
By Thom Hartmann A...
As the world burns, and more and more fossil fuels are being used every day planet-wide, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels passed 416 ppm this week at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. In the 300,000 years since the emergence of modern humans, carbon dioxide levels have never been this high.Latest Headlines
Who rejected United States-North Korea peace talks?
There were conflicting reports on Sunday regarding a recent proposal for United States-North Korea peace talks which was allegedly made before North Korea"s recent nuclear test
U.K. Pound Falls As Markets Get Brexit Jitters
Bloomberg said on Monday the pound had sustained its biggest fall against the dollar in 11 months
Clinton: I'll defend Israel but push for 'two-state solution
Hillary Clinton believes both Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz "missed the mark" with their approach to the Israel-Palestinian Arab conflict
Images of Thom
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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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."
From Cracking the Code:
"In Cracking the Code, Thom Hartmann, America’s most popular, informed, and articulate progressive talk show host and political analyst, tells us what makes humans vulnerable to unscrupulous propagandists and what we can do about it. It is essential reading for all Americans who are fed up with right-wing extremists manipulating our minds and politics to promote agendas contrary to our core values and interests."
Based on what Ari Berman said, I guess we need a more objective redistricting system.