Daily Topics - Tuesday July 8th, 2014
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Catch The Thom Hartmann Program LIVE noon-3pm ET!! Remember to join Thom in our chatroom during the program today!
Hour One: Are Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz both Messiahs? / PLUS, white people don't get to say the N-word - Pastor D. Alexander Bullock, Change Agent Consortium
Hour Two: Where's the Public Outrage about Big Money in Politics? America's Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Three: Nixon's darkest crime - Robert Parry, Consortium News
Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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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.
Images of Thom
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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From Screwed:
"Hartmann speaks with the straight talking clarity and brilliance of a modern day Tom Paine as he exposes the intentional and systematic destruction of America’s middle class by an alliance of political con artists and outlines a program to restore it. This is Hartmann at his best. Essential reading for those interested in restoring the institution that made America the envy of the world."
Tom says the White Horse Prophesy calls the powerful adversary of virtue (supposedly Russia) "Gogmagog."
In fact the name comes from an ancient mythic history of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in which the first humans to populate the island were refugee Trojans led by Brutus, whose name was lent to the island.
Indigenous peoples were a race of giants, the last of whom was hurled into the sea at Cornwall by, if memory serves, its first human duke. This last of the giants was Gogmagog.
By the way, the first large-scale study of resveratrol use by humans (appropriately enough in Chianti) shows no benefit in reducing heart disease, cancer, nor in promoting longevity.
As so often is the case, something which seems incredibly promising in vitro and in animal studies proves not so when applied to human beings.
(I.e., we're all going to die.)
(Ref. Medscape, reporting JAMA/Internal Medicine mid May -- 15th, I think.)