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Thom Hartmann ~ It truly pains me to see you wearing your arm sling as often as you do. I am sure that you are aware that protein is necessary to rebuild body tissue. It would be wise to put asside your banisment of animal tissue at this time. However, I understand your apprehension to do so. I also respect your decision as a vegetarian not to compromise your beliefs.
However, there are other ways to supply the body with an abundance of protein other than consumption of animal meat. Bean and legumes provide protean as well. Tofu, is a rich source of protein as well.
I am sure you are aware of these sources. However, you might not be aware of the source of protein available from hemp. In the Bible hemp is described as the sustenance that will be as meat for man. Currently an extract from the hemp seed is available legally on the market known as hemp protein. It is a powder form of the hemp seed.
This powder is available on the west coast at Whole Food Distributors as Hemp Protein. However, it is probably something that can be obtained in any health food store; and, certainly on line. It is a powder that can be added to cereals, smoothies, and fruit juices. One teaspoon per drink, once a day may greatly help in your rejuvinalization process.
Here is to the hopes of a speedy recovery.
Best wishes,
DAM
MMmmNACHOS ~ You've convinced me. You have my vote.
DAnneMarc: Amen to that!
HI paine,
Sorry abut that. I had discontinued posting the show notes, but after people expressed an interest in them recently, I have started catching up with them. So watch this space!
Palindromedary ~ Quite remarkable indeed. I too was grateful that Thom let people speak about 9/11. It is a start toward what you say has to occur before we can stop these stupid wars of aggression. People have to open their minds to what really happened that day. Then they can see that these wars we have gotten involved in are nothing more than wars of conquest and profit and have nothing to do with defense or justice.
The rights we have been stripped of as a nation have not been forfeited for security; but, only for control.
Thank you Thom for allowing discussion of this most controversial topic. I too am agnostic on this issue. However, the truth, whatever it may be, must be known!
Ah how about Juile Stein, Rocky Anderson...or Me!!! ;)
I encourage everyone who wants to actually strengthen the message that their vote carries to not vote for any candidate, Right or Left, in 2016, who has ties to Wall St.
It's time to STOP this Corporate highjacking of WE the Peoples Government.
ABOLISH CORPORATE PERSONHOOD...NOW!
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Palin like I said to Danne, you are right. I just have a bad feeling about this. Something just doesn't seem right.
DAnne sorry your rilittle should have proof in hand. I just have a bad feeling about this.
DanneMarc: I watched that video of that caller from Berkeley, Lawrence, who talked about 9/11. And I was quite surprised that Thom Hartmann actually let the guy talk so long about it. I was also surprised that Thom didn't really challenge what the guy was saying. Thom sure did look like he stiffened up as soon as the subject was posed by the caller, though, and kept looking very tense the whole time. Thom didn't look comfortable at all about the subject.
I got to say...thank you Thom for letting the guy talk and thank you Lawrence of Berkeley for your call!
That was funny when, after Lawrence tried to answer Thom's question about who was really behind 9/11 and Lawrence mentions PNAC, Thom says that they were just a bunch of nuts...and Lawrence says..that it was the President and Vice President...and Thom says..well, yeah... but I still stand behind my statement. Funny! I don't know...Thom wrote a book about the JFK assassination maybe he will eventually write about 9/11. Thom did say, however, that he has never really investigated 9/11.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqr-uFaKrhY
Maaloula, Syria..largely a Christian community...a place where they still speak Aramaic...the language of Jesus was taken over by US backed Al Qaeda terrorists and killed some Christians and tried to force others to convert to Islam under threat of death.
Assad, like his father, relatively non-secular, always protected the Christians. But now the jihadist Al Qaeda Muslims are out to kill as many as they can..cutting off heads even.
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/saudius-jihadists-take-over-maal...
Here's a photo of a statue of Mary on a jutting rock over-looking the village of Maaloula.
http://www.syriangate.com/syria-news/Maaloula,Syria-Where-language-Jesus...
"Arab Christians come out strongly against US strike in Syria"
"Opposition to Western intervention on behalf of beleaguered Christian minorities emerged as a key theme of a regional Arab Christian conference hosted by Jordan this week."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2013/0906/Arab-Christians-com...
video of fighting in Maaloula...cute but brave RT reporter, Maria Finoshina, in fire fight area flinching as bullets fly by. Passing Syrian soldiers with big grins, and one falling off a truck, obviously enamored by the reporter. In another section of video you can see the Al Qaeda fighting from the Maaloula Hotel above (not in view)..you can just see the fence rimming the cliff. If you go to Google Earth you can see the hotel and get a view of where the rebel fighters were firing from.
The Mary statue, on top of a rock, can be seen in the both the Google Earth 360 panorama looking down on the statue from behind the fence and in the video looking up at the statue just to the left of the fenced in area above where the rebel fighters are firing from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4LcysndedgY
Thom, Thank you for that very concise, hopeful letter to the President. Maybe you should be President. I wish I could feel the respect for our President that you articulated in your letter, but I don't. GWB's "fool me once..." line came to me last week re the President and every time the thought of him enters my head, that's the line I hear. I think he fooled us all BIG TIME when he ran for election first time around and the second time, those of us who had second thoughts didn't dare exercise them. And of course, he didn't do a thing you suggested. He did not even, if I recall, acknowledge Kerry's diplomatic breakthrough, took that credit for himself. What a disappointment! We need to start thinking now about the next elections. I'm going to get your 2016 book. Revolution? Is that in the title? I don't see any way around it. I hope you will, in succeeding weeks, suggest peaceful ways that the population can mobilize away from the moribund system we're now mired in. Along those lines, another topic I hope you will consider addressing is the undue influence that Israel has gained in this country and among our Congressional representatives. Can't remember the name of the guy who held the Republican purse strings closed for so long. After the last debt ceiling fiasco, he seems to have fallen from view. I bring him up because I think Israel and AIPAC have an even more deleterious effect on Congress and this country -- including even rumors that Israeli interventions represent fifth column interference in our government. Mearsheimer and Walt wrote a book called The Israel Lobby. The book got good foreign reviews but apparently poor reviews here, possibly because Jewish, Zionist, Israeli influence in America is so pronounced. This could be a very big problem in our future. Among the Snowden revelations was one that the NSA is directly giving Israel personal information about Americans which should be none of their business. To say this is disturbing would be an understatement. In any case, want to throw it out as a possible discussion topic at some point in the future. THANKS! for all you do...
Incidentally, many of those people who have been killed in Syria were casualties from both sides as a result of the attempts of the rebels to overthrow the Syrian regime...a rebel force that includes Al Qaida and mostly outside forces put up to no good by Saudi Arabia and the US. Blame those deaths on the instigators of unrest...the US and Saudi Arabia and other countries assisting the rebels. And for what? Again, as in Afghanistan, it has to do with putting a pipeline through Syria. But the western propaganda tries to put all the deaths off on Assad which just isn't true. People do die when they get caught in a battle zone. Shame on the US for helping to foment regime change in Syria. That, in itself, is a war crime.
Right on, Mark Saulys!
Kend: It was the Al Qaeda rebels who launched the chemical weapons in Syria in order to draw the US into striking the Syrian government. The US is supporting our Al Qaeda enemies. Or....maybe Al Qaeda has been acting as mercenaries all along...including helping to do 9/11. The US is supporting the same rebels that massacred Christians in Maaloula, Syria...cut off heads...all because the village supported the Assad government.
Karl Smiley: I'm glad you brought that up...yes, there was a piece on RT today that said that the US has it's own stockpiles of chemical weapons...1700 tons in 6 different states....and they are leaking. In one state, where our government claimed they destroyed the Mustard gas in storage there, it was discovered the tanks were leaking the chemicals still.
Unfortunately, I just read that the CIA is moving massive amounts of weapons to the supposedly "good" rebels as we speak.
On another note wouldn't it be wonderful if our country could lead by example and get rid of the massive amounts of nerve gas we are still have stockpiled in Colorado and other states. Thank god we got it out of Oregon.
Kend ~ i hear you! However, I just don't understand you! Trusting someone who gassed their own people?? Please provide the evidence. "Not now, i'm not in my first term."
If you can't provide support for 2 more savings initiative then adios supportive engineering.
I can't believe you are buying this. You are going to trust someone who gased his own people.
i think Obama's meeting with Putin was like making a deal with the devil. What did Obama promise Putin to get Obama out of this mess.
Remember when Obama whispered to Putin "not now I am in my first term"
Another message from Dennis Kucinich:
Thom Hartmann ~ When asked if it was illegal in the UN Charter for a country to make a threat of military action you said you "believe that is true". When asked if this would make the threat of striking Syria an illegal act in the international community you said, "Well, that might just be the threat of making a threat."
WTF. Come on Thom! You can do better than that.
Call To Account ~ Thanks for that post! However, I was under the assumption that the interest of Qatar was to prevent the natural gas pipeline from Iran to Syria which would under cut the cost of their monopoly over natural gas supplies to Europe; in effect, running them out of business. Essentially the new pipeline would be able to provide more gas at cheaper prices than Qatar. It would rob them of their main source of easy income.
To actually want to take over the natural gas business of other countries is a scheme far more diabolical. Thanks so much for that heads up. If that is correct the "incentive" for the destabilization of Syria and military takeover is far greater than I was previously aware. So is the potential for WWIII.
Imagine if the U.S. and Russia used this opportunity to bring about a real peace rather than all this posturing that can only lead to failure once again. Someone has to be the grown up here. The sea near Syria is seeing an escalation of battleships from both sides and is making it likely that some kind of 'accident' is likely. That in and of itself can derail the negotiations and set off another war that will not stop at Syria's borders.
When Vladimir Putin is doing more to stop the United states going to war than the president who was elected to "End wars" then i think it's time for a re-evaluation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6X8YgCBV8o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
^insight into post WW2 and Nazis and of course "Skull and Bones" with its ties to the various socialist "planned economies" incl Marxism, Nazism and American "welfare socialism" -with references to Pavlov and education as a whole in the West.
It's one woman's very fine expose' of the monetary elite. She's cool.
Now days much of the "real news" starts of the web by bloggers, since most of the network news is fluff or at the best "filtered".