Daily Topics - Thursday October 2nd, 2014
By shawnt56
Join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON & LAST HOURS
- both narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio
Hour One: America's 3rd world supreme court - America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio
Hour Two: When profits become deadly...
Hour Three: Hong Kong...protesters defy police warnings - Melissa Chan, Al Jazeera America / PLUS, Geeky Science - could 700 million be under water sooner than you think?
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I'd like to correct the caller at the bottom of the 3rd hour, that it's not the Denver school system that's being dumbed down, it's Jefferson County to the west, and Douglas County a little ways to the south of Denver.
Denver is too Democratic to let this sort of thing happen. Douglas is heavily Republican, and Jefferson is fairly mixed, which is why there's more uproar in JeffCo, even though Douglas is further along in the destruction of its public education system. I think at least one of the pro-privatization board members in Douglas was replaced last year in a regularly scheduled election, whereas JeffCo is working up to a recall.
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