Daily Topics - Tuesday January 12th, 2016
By shawnt56
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Hour One: How Obama's Last State Of The Union Could be Different...
Hour Two: Honey, the TPP is NO Sweet Deal... / PLUS, TPP...the Time To Act is Now! Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Hour Three: When Progressives Fight...We Win! Greg Jobin-Leeds, WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World/Schott Foundation For Public Education
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Hard to believe that Rupert Murdoch divorced the woman that defended him from a pie attack.
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DWS says Nikki Haley was chosen to do the SotU buttal (I would call it a rebuttal but they never respond to what was actually said) because the REpublican Party has a diversity problem. I hypothesize that it's also because she did the one Republican act that liberals agree with in the last year: taking down the Confederate flag.
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A caller at the end of the 1st hour said TPP will cause our cancer rate to shoot up because of the uranium in coal burned by China. He is thinking qualitatively, not quantitatively. The amount of extra uranium that we in the U.S. would inhale would probably be tiny and not significantly affect cancer rates. Around 1900, skies were black with coal soot, and a species of moth changed colors because of the natural selection of camouflage, but I doubt you'd find a decent amount of uranium in the body of any person from that era.
There are plenty of much bigger reasons to reject the TPP: jobs, wages, environmental destruction, loss of sovereignty.