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Thom's blog
Hope Dies Last
Back in 2003, a few years before he died, Studs Terkel was on my show and made this comment about “hope dying last”: “Without hope - what’s the alternative to it? It’s despair. And despair means your head in the oven. Hope is what made this country be what it is. It was hope that made the abolitionists fight slavery, you see, against terrible odds…. I picked up that title [of my book] from a Mexican farmworker, her name was Jesse De La Cruz…She said when times are bleak and bewildering we have saying in Spanish…it means ‘hope dies last.’”
As Terkel later pointed out, it's useful to face reality, and then go from there without despair. In some ways it’s like a cancer diagnoses: most people handle tough news better than they think they will, and everybody should have the right to know what reality truly is. This brings us to the discussion around the realities of climate change.
Last week on my radio show, I had Guy McPherson on as a guest, and he had some terrifying things to say about the future of the planet. He said we are experiencing such a rapidly warming planet that it was difficult for him to imagine a habitat for human beings in the not too distant future. McPherson went on to say that it’s over, that humanity as a species will largely die out, probably within our lifetimes. His message is that it’s too late to do anything about it, so we should do everything we can now to make life better before it all ends.
On the other hand, Michael Mann, the famous climate scientist who came up with the “hockey stick” graph to show how carbon dioxide has been exploding as the result of industrial activity, says there’s still time to do something to stop the climate freight train heading toward us. During an appearance on my TV show earlier this week, he said that we have about two decades before things really start to hit the fan.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Proof! Outsourcing makes inequality worse... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Watch the video 'Last Hours' narrated by Thom Hartmann about the "time bomb" that is ticking underground, underwater and under ice… frozen methane that is now escaping and could trigger runaway climate change. www.lasthours.org
Have a question or comment for Thom? Grab your phone, hit record and send your video to YourTakeMyTake@gmail.com and we may air it on "The Big Picture."
Need to Know: Proof! Outsourcing makes inequality worse...
Lone Liberal Rumble:- Kris Ullman, Conservative Commentator/Activist. - Horace Cooper, National Center for Public Policy Research 
The Best of the Rest...
Daily Take: Hope dies last...
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
The Big Picture- Nate Sweet, The Big Picture producer
Article: " Charlie Savage" by Obama to call for ending NSA phone data collection.
Hour Two: Is Rick Scott guilty of murder?
The Hobby Lobby case heard at the Supreme Court- Shane Farnan, Talk Radio News Service
Hour Three: Who in the Ukraine will benefit from an IMF bailout?- Stephen Cohen, The Nation Magazine
Quote: "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson. Quote: "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell -- Harry S. Truman". |
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Shouldn't there be a separation of corporations and religion?- Andrew Abela PhD, A Catechism for Business
Hour Two: Hope dies last...
Hour Three: How to resurrect the dead 101- Tyler Johnson, Dead Raising Team.
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
We'll have the best of the rest of the news...all the news & information you won't hear from the corporate owned news media...
Plus, I'll be talking about the issues of the day with "America's lawyer" Mike Papantonio, host of Ring of Fire Radio...
And, my favorite segment of the week, Geeky Science! Together with your calls...right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...Occupying The Media 3 hours a day 5 days a week" for "we the people"...
And remember...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Should corporations be entitled to "religious freedom?”
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Rick Scott is guilty of murder & Charlene Dill is his victim
Politics Panel - What could go wrong w/guns at school?
Politics Panel - Corporations never will be people
Why we should oppose the Common Core Standards?
It's TEDx time for Thom Hartmann
What God does Hobby Lobby pray to?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/25/14: Hobby Lobby Case Goes Before Supreme Court
Thom talks today's Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case with The Catholic Association's Ashley McGuire and the Common Core education program with the American Federation of Teachers' President Randi Weingarten. Tonight's "Politics Panel" discusses whether Obama will actually end the NSA's bulk phone metadata collection program, whether the Obama administration is the "greatest enemy of press freedom" in history and whether Georgia's governor will sign a bill to allow its citizens to carry guns in bars, airports and churches. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses how Florida Governor Rick Scott killed Charlene Dill, a mother of three.
Thom Hartmann on Economic and Labor News - March 24, 2014
Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder?
'Black on White' Crime is Bogus!
Caller: We Live With 'Black on White' Crime
"White Girl Bleed a Lot"...WHAT?
The Thom Hartmann Program - March 25, 2014
Who in the Ukraine will Benefit from an IMF Bailout?
SCOTUS: Hobby Lobby Birth Control Case
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Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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