Daily Topics - Monday May 4th, 2015
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Be sure to join Thom in our chatroom during the program!
Our newest video is here! Watch RESTORATION - plus check out CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio & Thom Hartmann, directed by Leila Conners
Join Thom in London - June 22-26, 2015 - for a special week long course - Saving the World From Extinction — How to Create a World That Works for All - follow the link to Schumacher College for details!
HOUR ONE: How to Talk to Your Kids about Bernie...
HOUR TWO: Sam Brownback gets tipped by waitress...
Hour Three: Are prisons starving prisoners?
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.
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Thom & Louise at a "private audience" with His Holiness Pope John Paul II at his summer palace, Castle Gandolfo, Italy
From Unequal Protection, 2nd Edition:
"If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story."
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 Screwed:
"The powers that be are running roughshod over the powers that OUGHT to be. Hartmann tells us what went wrong — and what you and I can do to help set American right again."
I interpret the commandment against graven images in the context of the time, presuming the Exodus actually happened. The Israelites were basically seceding from Egypt and wanted to differentiate themselves. One way to do that is through language. (I presume the spoken languages were already different.) They cast off the Egyptian writing system, which consists of engravings of birds etc., and went with an alphabetic--i.e. non-pictorial--writing system. The commandment to be monotheistic also fits this; differentiating from the Egyptian polytheistic religion. (It was around that time that King Akhenaten had tried to make Egypt monotheistic, so the idea wasn't new.)